Ronald Knoxs Lectures on Virgils Aeneid by Francesca Buglia... - 9781350118287

Ronald Knoxs Lectures on Virgils AeneidWith Introduction and Critical Essays\nAuthor(s): Francesca Bugliani Knox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350118287, 978-1350118287\nSynopsis\nThis book makes available Ronald Knoxs hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgils Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knoxs customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the essential and dominant characteristics that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgils political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether .