Vergil Redux: Transitional elements from Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics adapted by 21st century poets.
| dc.contributor.author | Siegel, Abigail | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Nau, Robert (Classics) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Caulder, Alison (English, Theatre, Film & Media) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Egan, Rory (Classics) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T17:21:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T17:21:23Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2020-09-11 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020-08-12T18:52:50Z | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020-09-11T21:22:07Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Classics | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the ways in which three 21st century poets adapt Vergilian themes and text. There has been scant study of 21st century Vergilian poets, and so I take this opportunity to discuss such poets as a supplement to studies of previous poets in previous centuries. I analyze the 21st century poets’ uses of Vergil’s transitional themes from the Eclogues and Georgics, specifically ideas of the Golden Age, uses of transitional characters, and decline of the pastoral. The first chapter discusses Vergil’s uses of both the agricultural and Hesiodic Golden Ages, which the modern poets adapt and make relevant in 21st century contexts. The second chapter highlights three characters from Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics, Alexis, Orpheus, and Hermes, and analyzes how they are adapted from Vergil as heralds of either the Golden Age or decline. The third chapter focuses on the decline of the pastoral, and specifically how the modern poets use Vergil’s imagery of the evicted farmers of the Eclogues to illustrate the decline of the 21st century landscape in socio-political and agricultural terms, as well as the decline of pastoral literature. I conclude this thesis by discussing the future of Vergilian pastoral literature in the contexts of other transitional themes and authors. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2020 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/35064 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Virgil | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pastoral poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Classics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vergil | en_US |
| dc.subject | Roman poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Classical reception | en_US |
| dc.subject | Contemporary poetry | en_US |
| dc.title | Vergil Redux: Transitional elements from Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics adapted by 21st century poets. | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |