Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on the text
- Introduction: Literary careers – Classical models and their receptions
- 1 Some Virgilian unities
- 2 There and back again: Horace's poetic career
- 3 The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio
- 4 An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia
- 5 Persona and satiric career in Juvenal
- 6 The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger
- 7 Re-inventing Virgil's Wheel: the poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch
- 8 Did Shakespeare have a literary career?
- 9 New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton
- 10 Bookburning and the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil
- 11 Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges
- 12 ‘Mirrored doubles’: Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry and the poet's career
- 13 Dryden and the complete career
- 14 Goethe's elegiac sabbatical
- 15 Wordsworth's career prospects: ‘peculiar language’ and public epigraphs
- Epilogue: Inventing a life – a personal view of literary careers
- List of works cited
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on the text
- Introduction: Literary careers – Classical models and their receptions
- 1 Some Virgilian unities
- 2 There and back again: Horace's poetic career
- 3 The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio
- 4 An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia
- 5 Persona and satiric career in Juvenal
- 6 The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger
- 7 Re-inventing Virgil's Wheel: the poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch
- 8 Did Shakespeare have a literary career?
- 9 New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton
- 10 Bookburning and the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil
- 11 Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges
- 12 ‘Mirrored doubles’: Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry and the poet's career
- 13 Dryden and the complete career
- 14 Goethe's elegiac sabbatical
- 15 Wordsworth's career prospects: ‘peculiar language’ and public epigraphs
- Epilogue: Inventing a life – a personal view of literary careers
- List of works cited
- Index
Summary
This volume is based on a selection of the papers delivered at the Second Passmore Edwards Symposium on Literary Careers, held in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 2–4 September 2004, together with two additional chapters commissioned to cover important aspects of the subject. The conference was generously funded by the Passmore Edwards Committee of the University of Oxford; we are also grateful to Corpus Christi College for its support.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010