Item #006603 Pietas from Vergil To Dryden. James D. Garrison.

Pietas from Vergil To Dryden

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #006603

Full burgundy cloth. x, 340 pp. Light rubbing to edges, small stain to fore edge of text block, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine. For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attemps to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends the whole of Duty of Man towards the Gods, toward his Country, and towards his Relations." Dryden's definition belongs to a dialogue about meaning that reflects a history of contention over religious, political, and moral issues of enduring cultural significance. This book traces the history of the Vergilian ideal from classical Latin to neoclassical English literature.

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