/ Edited by Stuart Gillespie, Reader in Engilsh Literature, University of Glasgow, Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge, UK ;New York
: Cambridge University Press
, 2007.
xiv, 365 p.
: ill.
(Cambridge companions to literature)
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Index
pt. 1. Antiquity. Lucretius and Greek philosophy / James Warren -- Lucretius and the Herculaneum library / Dirk Obbink -- Lucretius and Roman politics and history / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Lucretius and previous poetic traditions / Monica Gale -- Lucretian architecture : the structure and argument of the De rerum natura / Joseph Farrell -- Lucretian texture : style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura / E. J. Kenney -- Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity / Philip Hardie -- pt. 2. Themes. Lucretius and the history of science / Monte Johnson and Catherine Wilson -- Moral and political philosophy : reading of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire / Reid Barbour -- Lucretius and the sublime / James I. Porter -- Religion and enlightenment in the neo-Latin reception of Lucretius / Yasmin Haskell -- pt. 3. Reception. Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance : transmission and scholarship / Michael Reeve -- Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance / Valentina Prosperi -- Lucretius in early modern France / Philip Ford -- Lucretius in the English Renaissance / Stuart Gillespie -- The English voices of Lucretius from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good / David Hopkins -- Lucretius in the European Enlightenment / Eric Baker -- Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain / Martin Priestman -- Lucretius and the moderns / Stuart Gillespie and Donald Mackenzie.