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Subject(s)

• Virgil—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Education—England—History—16th century [Browse]
• Education—England—History—17th century [Browse]

Series

Classical presences. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-257) and index.

Contents

• Introduction. Virgil's schooldays ; Master, scholar, schoolbook
• The poet as schoolbook. 'I must read Virgil' ; 'Amo magistrum, I love the maister' ; The place of commentary and the works of Amor
• Pastoral and the painful schoolmaster. Echo, eclogue, dialogue ; 'The schoolemaister of Bacchus' ; 'Now thou art gone, now thou art gone'
• Placement and pedagogy in the Georgics. 'The rurall part of Virgil' ; Virgil's schoolroom ; 'Some boks have resistit, standeth stil' ; Print and pedagogy
• Forgetting epic. After Troy ; Virgil's wild goose ; Epic struggles ; 'A palmer with a rodde'
• Conclusion : 'Virgilius poëtarum doctissimus'.

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ISBN

• 9780199591244 (hbk.)
• 0199591245 (hbk.)

LCCN

2010937006

OCLC

646393961

RCP

C - S

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