Virgil Bibliography

Renaissance Imitations: Criticism

* Spenser criticism is in a separate section.

Alcáraz, J.A. González. "Ronsard y Virgilio." Simposio Virgiliano 303-7.

Allen, Don Cameron. "Marlowe's Dido and the Tradition." Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama in Honor of Hardin Craig. Ed. Richard Hosley. London: Routledge, 1963. 55-68.

Anderson, David. Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1988.

Arnett, David Baxter. "Milton's Paradise Regained and the Georgic Mode." M. A. thesis U of Virginia, 1973.

Bartels, Emily C. Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1993. Ch. 2: "Reproducing Africa: Dido, Queen of Carthage and Colonialist Discourse." 29-52.

Bates, Paul A. "Shakespeare's Sonnets and Pastoral Poetry." Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 103 (1967): 81-96.

Bayo, Marcial José. Virgilio y la pastoral español del Renacimiento (1480-1530). Biblioteca románica hispánica 2. Estudios y ensayos 44. Madrid: Gredos, 1959.

Bellamy, Elizabeth J. "From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return." Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature. Ed. Valeria Finucci and Regina Schwartz. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. 207-23.

Bertoni, Giuilio. L'Orlando furioso e la rinascenza a Ferrara. Modena, 1919.

Betts, J. H. "Classical Allusions in Shakespeare's Henry V with Special Reference to Virgil." Greece and Rome ser. 2, 15 (1968): 147-63.

Blandford, D. V. "Virgil and Vegio." Vergilius 5 (1959): 29-30.

Blessington, Francis C. Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic. Boston: Routledge, 1979.

Biow, Douglas. Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic. Stylus: Studies in Medieval Culture. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.

Bradshaw, David J. "Egyptian Gold: Milton's Use of Virgil in Paradise Lost, Books 11 and 12." "All in All": Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective. Ed. Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt. Selingsgrove, PA and Cranbury, NJ: Susquehenna University Press, 1999. [PAGE NUMBERS? NOT IN MLA AS OF 11 AUG. 1999]

Bradshaw, David J. "Milton's Adaptation of the Virgilian Hero." Mid-Hudson Language Studies 12 (1989): 35-45.

Britton, Elizabeth Lindsey. "The Dido-Aeneas Story from Vergil to Dryden." Diss. U of Virginia, 1984.

Brown, Virginia, and Craig Kallendorf. "Maffeo Vegio's Book XIII to Virgil's Aeneid: A Checklist of Manuscripts." Scriptorium 44 (1990):107-126.

Butler, George F. "Fathers and Sons in Vergil's Aeneid and Book 6 of Paradise Lost." Classical and Modern Literature 17 (1997): 265-77.

Butler, George F. "The Wrath of Aeneas and the Triumph of the Son: Virgil's Aegaeon and Paradise Lost." Comparative Literature Studies 34.2 (1997): 103-18.

Cable, Chester. "Absalom and Achitophel as Epic Satire." Studies in Honor of John Wilcox. Ed. A. D. Wallace. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1958. 51-60.

Campbell, Gordon. "Imitation in Epitaphium Damonis." Milton Studies 29 (1984): 65-79.

Cavallo, Jo Ann. Boiardo's Orlando innamorato: An Ethics of Desire. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993.

Cedar, Vernon Lee. "The Latin Pastoral Eclogue after Vergil." Diss., U of Wisconsin, 1984.

Cheney, Patrick. Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.

Cook, Patrick J. Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996.

Cutts, John P. "Dido, Queen of Carthage." Notes & Queries 5 (1958): 371-74.

Di Cesare, Mario A. Vida's Christiad and Vergilian Epic. New York: Columbia, 1964.

Duckworth, George. "Maphaeus Vegius and Vergil's Aeneid: A Metrical Comparison." Classical Philology 64 (1969): 1-6.

Ewing, Marilyn McKee. "Hydras of Discourse: The Uses of the Hydra in English Renaissance Literature." Diss. U of Colorado at Boulder, 1982.

Falconer, Rachel A. E. "Some Aspects of the Influence of Virgil on Milton's Style." Diss. Oxford, 1989.

Fernández, L. Rubio. "Virgilio en el medioevo y el Renacimiento español." Simposio Virgiliano 27-57.

Fichter, Andrew. Poets Historical: Dynastic Epic in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982.

Ford, Marilyn Claire. "Eliot v. Milton: Virgil's Greatest Heirs." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1998): 45-49.

Fowler, Alastair. "The Beginnings of English Georgic." Lewalski, Renaissance Genres 105-25.

Freedman, Morris. "Dryden's Miniature Epic." JEGP 57 (1958): 211-19.

Friedrich, Jakob. Die Didodramen des Dolce, Jodelle und Marlowe in ihrem Verhältnis zu einander und zu Vergils Aeneis. Kempten: Kösel, 1888.

Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993. For Marlowe's Dido, see Ch. 4: "The Transvestite Stage: More on the Case of Christopher Marlowe." 105-43, esp. 126ff.

Godshalk, William Leigh. "Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage." ELH 38 (1971): 1-18.

Haddad, Miranda S. Johnson. "The Writer as Reader: A Study of Intertextual Influence in the Works of Dante, Ariosto and Spenser." Diss. Yale, 1987. (Ariosto and Virgil.)

Hale, John K. Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

Hall, Louis B. "An Aspect of the Renaissance in Gavin Douglas's Eneados." Studies in the Renaissance 7 (1960): 184-92.

Hamilton, Donna B. "Re-Engineering Virgil: The Tempest and the Printed English Aeneid." The Tempest and Its Travels. Ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000. 114-20.

Hamilton, Donna B. Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1990. Includes long section on imitation theory in the renaissance.

Hardie, Philip. "After Rome: Renaissance Epic." Ward, John O. Roman Epic. Ed. A. J. Boyle. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 294-313.

Harding, Davis Philoon. The Club of Hercules: Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 50. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1962.

Hart, Jonathan. "Shakespeare's Italy and England: The Translation of Culture and Empire." 460-80. Shakespeare in Italy. Ed. Holger Klein and Michele Marrapodi. Shakespeare Yearbook 10. Lewiston: Mellen, 1999.

Hartle, Paul N. "'Lawrels for the Conquered': Virgilian Translation and Travesty in the English Civil War and Its Aftermath." Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaisssance: Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. [PAGE NUMBERS?]

Hijmann, B. L., Jr. "Aeneia Virtus: Vegio's Supplementum to the Aeneid." Classical Journal 67 (1971-72): 144-55.

Hubbard, Thomas K. The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998.

Hulse, S. Clark. "'A Piece of Skilful Painting' in Shakespeare's 'Lucrece.'" Shakespeare Studies 31 (1978): 13-22. (The ekphrasis on Juno's temple.)

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost wherein the texts of sacred writ, relating to the poem, are quoted, the parallel places and imitations of the most excellent Homer and Virgil, cited and compared, all the obscure parts render'd in phrases more familiar, the old and obsolete words, with their originals, explain'd and made easie to the English reader. London: Jacob Tonson, 1695. Available on microfilm, Early English Books (1641-1700) 358:10.

Hunter, G. K. Paradise Lost. Unwin Critical Library. London: Allen & Unwin, 1980. See ch. 2 (on structure, ethics) and ch. 4 (on similes).

James, Heather. "Cultural Disintegration in Titus Andronicus: Mutilating Titus, Vergil, and Rome." Violence in Drama. Ed. James Redmond. Themes in Drama 13. Cambridge: CUP, 1991. 123-40.

Javitch, Daniel. "The Grafting of Virgilian Epic in Orlando furioso." Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Ed. Valeria Finucci. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. 56-76.

Javitch, Daniel. "The Orlando Furioso and Ovid's Revision of the Aeneid." Modern Language Notes 99 (1984): 1023-36.

Javitch, Daniel. Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. Ch. 3: "Commentaries on Imitations in Orlando Furioso."

Jewell, Alice Karnes. "From Homer to Milton: A Study of Invocations in Epic Poetry." Diss. U of Arkansas, 1998.

Johne, Renate. "Die Dido-Gestalt von Vergil bis Cnaustinus." Vergil: Antike Weltliteratur in ihrer Entstehung und Nachwirkung. Eine Aufsatsammlung. Ed. Johannes Irmscher. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1995. 83-93.

Jordan, C. "The Ending of Bernardo Pulci's Morgante: The Poet as Vergil's Gallus," Romanic Review 75 (1984): 399-413.

Kallendorf, Craig. "From Virgil to Vida: The Poeta Theologus in Italian Renaissance Commentary." Journal of the History of Ideas 56 (1995): 41-62.

Kallendorf, Craig. Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.

Kalstone, David. "Marvell and the Fictions of Pastoral." English Literary Renaissance 4 (1974): 174-78. (On "Damon the Mower.")

Kelly, L. G. "Contaminatio in Lycidas: An Example of Vergilian Poetics." Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa 38 (1968): 588-98.

Kelsall, Malcolm "What God? What mortal? The Aeneid and English Mock-Heroic." Arion 8 (1969): 359-79.

Kern, Hans. Supplemente zur Aneis aus dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert. Nuremberg: J. L. Stich, 1896. (Pamphlet: Regenstein [Chicago] PA6826.C7 v. 2)

Kiehl, James M. "Windsor-Forest as Epical Counterpart." Thoth 7 (1966): 53-67.

Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in Restoration England. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994. 67-122.

Knutowski, Boleslaus. Das Dido-drama von Marlowe und Nash: Eine literarhistorische Untersuchung. Breslau: Grosser, 1905. Detailed catalogue of Marlowe's sources.

Kott, Jan. "The Aeneid and The Tempest." Arion n.s. 3 (1976): 424-51.

Lawler, Traugott. "'Wafting Vapours from the Land of Dreams': Virgil's Fourth and Sixth Eclogues and the Dunciad." SEL 14 (1974): 373-86.

Lein, Clayton D. "Donne's 'The Storme': The Poem and the Tradition." English Literary Review 4 (1974): 137-63.

Leube, Eberhard. Fortuna in Karthago: die Aeneas-Dido-Mythe Vergils in den romanischen Literaturen vom 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert. Studien zum Fortwirken der Antike 1. Heidelberg: Winter, 1969.

Looney, Dennis. Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.

Lord, George deForest. Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Lovejoy, A. O. and George Boas. Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity: Contributions to the History of Primitivism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1935.

Lucas, Corinne. "Didon: Trois réécritures tragiques du quatrième livre de l'Eneide dans le théâtre italien du XVIe siècle." Scritture di scritture: Testi, generi, modelli nel Rinascimento. Ed. Giancarlo Mazzacurati and Michel Plaisance. Europa delle Corti: Centro Studi sulle Società di Antico Regime, Biblioteca del Cinquecento 36. Rome: Bulzoni, 1987. 557-604.

Maguinness, W. S. "Maffeo Vegio continuatore dell'Eneide." Aevum 42 (1968): 478-85.

Markey, Timothy. "The Worke of Imitation: Virgil's Eclogues in England from Ascham to Milton." Diss. Harvard, 1996.

Martindale, Charles. John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1986.

Martz, Louis L. "The Rising Poet, 1645." The Lyric and Dramatic Milton: Selected Papers from the English Institute. Ed. Joseph H. Summers. New York: Columbia UP, 1965. 3-33. On Virgilian pastoral in Milton's lyric poetry.

McEuen, Kathryn Anderson. Classical Influence upon the Tribe of Ben: A Study of Classical Elements in the Non-Dramatic Poetry of Ben Jonson and His Circle. New York: Octagon, 1968. Ch. 6: "The Pastoral. Theocritus and Vergil."

McLaughlin, M. L. "Humanism and Italian Literature." 224-45. The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism. Ed. Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

Micocci, Claudio. "La presenza della tradizione classica nell'Orlando innamorato." Il Boiardo e il mondo estense nel Quattrocento: atti del convegno internazionale di studi: Scandiano, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, 13-17 settembre 1994. Ed. Giuseppe Anceschi and Tina Matarrese. Medioevo e umanesimo 98-99. 2 vols. Padua: Antenore, 1998. 43-61.

Miner, Earl. "The Death of Innocence in Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun.'" Modern Philology 65 (1967): 9-16. (Cf. Aen. 7.475-509.)

Miola, Robert S. "Vergil in Shakespeare: From Allusion to Imitation." Vergil at 2000: Commemorative Essays on the Poet and His Influence. Ed. John D. Bernard. AMS Ars Poetica 3. New York: AMS, 1986. 241-58. Rpt. in Vergil. Ed. Craig Kallendorf. The Classical Heritage 2. New York: Garland, 1993. 271-89.

Moore, Helen Louise. "Parallelism between Milton and Virgil." M.A. thesis Boston U, 1933.

Mortet, C. "La première édition de Virgile imprimée à Paris, 1470-1472." Extrait du Bibliographie moderne 1906, nos. 1-2. Besançon: Jacquin, 1906. (Pamphlet: Regenstein [Chicago] PA6826.C7 v. 11)

Mowat, Barbara A. "'Knowing I loved my books': Reading The Tempest Intertextually." The Tempest and Its Travels. Ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000. 27-36.

Mueller, Martin. "Turnus and Hotspur: The Political Adversary in the Aeneid and Henry IV." Phoenix 23 (1969): 278-90.

Mustard, Wilfred P. "Virgil's Georgics and the British Poets. AJP 29 ( ?? ): 1-32.

Neuse, Richard. "Milton and Spenser: The Virgilian Triad Revisited." ELH 45 (1978): 606-32.

O'Hehir, Brendan. "Vergil's First Georgic and Denham's Cooper's Hill." Philological Quarterly 42 (1963): 542-47.

O'Loughlin, Michael. The Garlands of Repose: The Literary Celebration of Civic and Retired Leisure. The Traditions of Homer and Vergil, Horace and Montaigne. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. [On Ecl. and Geo.]

Paratore, Ettore. "L'Orlando innamorato e l'Enéide." Il Boiardo e la critica contemporanea. Ed. Giuseppe Anceschi. Florence: Olschki, 1970. 347-75.

Pavlock, Barbara Rose. "Epic and Romance: Genera Mixta in Vergil, Ovid, Ariosto and Milton." Diss. Cornell, 1977.

Peterson, R. G. "Larger Manners and Events: Sallust and Virgil in Absalom and Achitophel." PMLA 82 (1967): 236-44.

Platt, Michael. "The Rape of Lucrece and the Republic for Which It Stands." Centennial Review 19 (1975): 59-79. (Shakespeare's brief, republican epic.)

Porter, William M. Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1993.

Porter, William Malin. "Paradise Lost's Allusive Interpretation of the Aeneid." Diss. Boston U, 1980.

Prescott, Anne Lake. French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978. (Good on Marot.)

Radliff, Julie Lee. "And Knew Not Eating Death: Banquet Hostesses in Renaissance Epic Poetry." Diss. U of Colorado, Boulder, 1996.

Raffaele, Luigi. Maffeo Vegio, elenco delle opere, scritti inediti. Bologne: Zanichelli, 1909.

Rajna, Pio. Le fonti dell' Orlando furioso. Rev. ed. Florence: Sansoni, 1900.

Redding, Arthur F. "Serpentine imagery in Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare." M.A. thesis U of Texas at Dallas, 1988.

Regan, John V. "The Mock-Epic Structure of the Dunciad." SEL 19 (1979): 459-73.

Revard, Stella P. "Vergil's Georgics and Paradise Lost: Nature and Human Nature in a Landscape." Vergil at 2000: Commemorative Essays on the Poet and His Influence. Ed. John D. Bernard. AMS Ars Poetica 3. New York: AMS, 1986. 259-80.

Richmond, H. M. "'Rural Lyricism,' a Renaissance Mutation of the Pastoral." Comparitive Literature 16 (1964): 193-210.

Roberts-Baytop, Adrianne. Dido, Queen of Infinite Variety: The English Renaissance, Borrowings and Influences. Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies 25. Salzburg: Institute für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1974.

Roche, Thomas P. "Ending the New Arcadia: Virgil and Ariosto." Sidney Newsletter 10 (1989): 3-12.

Rogers, David M. "Love and Honor in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage." Greyfriar 6 (1963): 3-7.

Roma, Gill. "Marlowe's Virgil: Dido Queene of Carthage." RES 28 (1977): 141-55.

Romizi, A. Le fonti latine dell' Orlando furioso. Turin: Paravia, 1896.

Rosenberg, D. M. Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and Milton. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1981.

Ross, Charles S. "Maffeo Vegio's 'short Cristyn wark,' with a Note on the Thirteenth Book in Early Editions of Vergil." Modern Philology 78 (1981): 215-26.

Rudat, Wofgang E. H. "Allusive Technique in Pope's Early Rota Virgilii Poetry." Antike und Abendland 22 (1976): 70-99.

Rudat, Wofgang E. H. "Another Look at the Limits of Allusion: Pope's Rape of the Lock and the Virgilian Tradition." Durham University Journal 40 (1978): 27-34.

Rudat, Wofgang E. H. "Pope's Clarissa, the Trojan Horse, and Swift's Houyhnhnms." Forum for Modern Language Studies 13 (1977): 6-11.

Rudat, Wofgang E. H. "Pope's Sermo Polysemus: The Virgilian Tradition in The Rape of the Lock." Comparative Literature 34 (1979): 99-112.

Rudat, Wofgang E. H. "The 'Mutual Commerce' in The Rape of the Lock: Pope and the Virgilian Tradition." Etudes anglaises 29 (1976): 534-44.

Schmidt, Paul Gerhard. "Neulatinische Supplemente zur Aeneis. Mit einer Edition der Exsequiae Turni von Jan van Foreest." Acta conventus neo-latini lovaniensis: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Louvain, 23-28 August, 1971. Ed. Jozeph Ijsewijn and Eckhard Kessler. Humanistische Bibliothek 1. Abhandlungen 20. Louvain: Leuven UP, 1973. 517-55.

Semrau, Eberhad. Dido in der deutschen Dichtung. Stoff- und Motivgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 9. Berlin: Gruyter, 1930.

Sessions, William A. Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life. Oxford: OUP, 1999. [On Surrey's Dido sonnet and his Aeneid translation.]

Simposio Virgiliano: conmemorativo del bimilenario de la muerte de Virgilio. [1982.] Universidad de Murcia, Sección de Filología Clásica, Simposio 1. Murcia: Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 1984.

Simpson, Percy. "Shakespeare's Use of Latin Authors." Studies in Elizabethan Drama. Oxford: OUP, 195. 1-63.

Sitterson, Joseph C., Jr. "Allusive and Elusive Meanings: Reading Ariosto's Vergilian Ending." Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1992): 1-19.

Steadman, John M. Epic and Tragic Structure in Paradise Lost. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.

Steadman, John M. Milton and the Paradoxes of Renaissance Heroism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1987.

Steadman, John M. Milton's Biblical and Classical Imagery. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne UP, 1984.

Thomas, Richard F. Virgil and the Augustan Reception. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

Tillman, James S. "Herrick's Georgic Encomia." Trust to Good Verses: Herrick Tercentenary Essays. Ed. Roger B. Rollin and J. Max Patrick. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1978. 149-57.

Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. "Supplementing the Aeneid in Early Modern England: Translation, Imitation, Commentary." International Journal of the Classical Tradition (FORTHCOMING).

Turner, Robert Elson. Didon dans la tragédie de la renaissance italienne et française. Paris: Fouillot, 1926.

Velz, John W. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960. Minneapolis: [?PUBLISHER], 1968.

Verbart, André. Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth. Costerus n.s. 97. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995.

Verbart, André. "Milton on Vergil: Dido and Aeneas in Paradise Lost." English Studies 78.2 (1997): 111-26.

Wasserman, Earl. "The Limits of Allusion in The Rape of the Lock." JEGP 65 (1966): 425-44.

Weibly, Penny Susan Pretzer. "'To Any That Will Read It': Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion as Monument, Emblem, and Myth." Diss. U of Texas at Austin, 1982.

Whitaker, Virgil K. Shakespeare's Use of Learning: An Inquiry into the Growth of His Mind and Art. San Marino: Huntington, 1953.

Whitworth, Stephen. "The Name of the Ancients: Humanist Homoerotics and the Sign of Pastoral." Diss. U of Michigan, 1995.

Wilson, Michael Craig. "The Concepts of Heroism in Virgil, Spenser and Milton." M.A. thesis, Michigan State U, 1977.

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