The Chaonian Dove: Studies in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil

This is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and documents the development of their political, moral and poetic pessimism. It presents the interrelationship of the three texts, their intertextuality, as integral to their meaning.
The book is in three main parts - 'Pastoral Meditation', 'Didactic Paradox', 'Epic Vision' - corresp...