Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics

276 Pages·2005·1.51 MB·English

by  Charles Martindale

LATIN POETRY AND THE
JUDGEMENT OF TASTE
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Latin Poetry and the
Judgement of Taste
An Essay in Aesthetics
CHARLES MARTINDALE
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Summary:‘‘Thisbookexaminesthevalueofaesthetics.MartindalearguesthatKant’sanalysisof‘the
judgementoftaste’,thejudgementthatsomethingisbeautiful,remainsoffundamentalimportanceforthe
moderncritic.Heexplorestherelationshipbetweenformandcontentinpoetryandurgesthevalueof
aestheticcriticismaspioneeredbyWalterPater’’—providedbypublisher.
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1.Latinpoetry–Historyandcriticism–Theory,etc.2.Kant,Immanuel,1724–1804–Aesthetics.3.Pater,
Walter,1839–1894–Aesthetics. 4.Aesthetics,Modern. 5.Criticism. I.Title.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Prologue 1
1. ImmanuelKantandAestheticJudgement 8
Horace
2. Content,Form,andFrame 55
Catullus,Horace,Propertius
3. DistinguishingtheAesthetic:PoliticsandArt 108
Virgil,Horace
4. TheAestheticTurn:LatinPoetryand
AestheticCriticism 167
Lucretius,Ovid,Lucan
Epilogue 237
Bibliography 239
IndexofNames 257
IndexofSubjects 261
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter1isamuch-expandedversionofanessaythatappearedin
Arion (third series, vol. 9, 2001, pp. 63–89). The third section of
Chapter 3 reuses parts of ‘Green Politics: The Eclogues’ from The
Cambridge Companion to Virgil, edited by the author, Cambridge
UniversityPress,1997,pp.107–24.Iamgratefultothepublishers
fortheirpermissiontoreusethismaterial.
The sources of the extracts printed in this book are as follows:
C.S.Lewis’spoem‘Prayer’iscitedfromLetterstoMalcolm:ChieXy
OnPrayerbyC.S.Lewiscopyright#C.S.LewisPte.Ltd.1963,
1964. Extract reprinted by permission. The extract from Robert
Pinsky’s‘CreationAccordingtoOvid’fromAfterOvid:NewMeta-
morphoses, eds. Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, is reprinted
withpermissionofFaberandFaberLtd.
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