Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception

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Summary

Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked.

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Note on the text	p. xii
Introduction: Literary careers - Classical models and their receptions	p. 1
Some Virgilian unities	p. 17
There and back again: Horace's poetic career	p. 39
The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio	p. 59
An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia	p. 89
Persona and satiric career in Juvenal	p. 105
The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger	p. 118
Re-inventing Virgil's Wheel: the poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch	p. 138
Did Shakespeare have a literary career?	p. 160
New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton	p. 179
Bookburning and the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil	p. 197
Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges	p. 209
'Mirrored doubles': Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry and the poet's career	p. 226
Dryden and the complete career	p. 241
Goethe's elegiac sabbatical	p. 256
Wordsworth's career prospects: 'peculiar language' and public epigraphs	p. 275
Epilogue: Inventing a life - a personal view of literary careers	p. 287
List of works cited	p. 300
Index	p. 327
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