Ronald Knox's Lectures on Virgil's Aeneid : With Introduction and Critical Essays

Knox, Francesca Bugliani (EDT)

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350354272
• DDC分類 873.01

Full Description

This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox's customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the 'essential and dominant characteristics' that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgil's political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable.

The additional introductory and critical essays by the contributors place the lectures in their historical and scholarly context, bring out their enduring relevance and illustrate how Ronald Knox's distinctive approach might be still developed to advantage. As Robert Speaight noted in his presidential address to the Virgil Society in 1958, 'many of us who love our Virgil will now understand him better because Ronald Knox loved and understood him so well'.

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Foreword
(Charles Martindale, University of Bristol, UK)

Introduction: The Context of Ronald Knox's Lectures on Virgil
(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)

Note on the Lecture List (Literae Humaniores) in The Oxford University Gazette (18 January 1912)

Editing Criteria

Part I: Ronald Knox's Lectures on Virgil

1. Virgil's Political Outlook
2. Virgil's Religious Outlook
3. Virgil's Romance and Pathos
4. Virgil's Art and Treatment of His Story
5. Virgil's Appreciation of Scenery
6. Virgil's Use of His Sources
7. Note on the Composition of Book 3
8. Characteristics of Virgil's Style and Versification

Part II: Critical Essays

'Ronald Knox's Lectures on Virgil: "A Wealth of Delicate Tenderness"'
(Matthew McGowan, Fordham University, USA)

'Ronald Knox's Lectures on Virgil: their Relevance for Scholarly Interpretation of the Aeneid'
(Francesco Montarese, MPW College London, UK)

'The Setting of the Lecture given by Monsignor Ronald Knox to the Virgil Society on 31 March 1946'
(John Mair, UK)

Appendix: 'J. E. Lowe, Ronald Knox and the Virgil Society lecture entitled "The Problem of Dido and Aeneas"'
(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)

Notes
Bibliography
Index