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
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- 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
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- Classical Literary Careers and their Reception , pp. 327 - 330Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010