Classical Literary Careers and their Reception

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This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers & their reception in later European literature, with expert contributions. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career Virgil , Horace & Ovid the volume looks at alternative & countermodels in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero & Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancient patterns are then examined, from Dante to Wordsworth, & including Petrarch, Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Dryden & Goethe. These chapters pose the question of the continuing relevance of ancient career models as ideas of authorship change over the centuries, leading to varying engagements & disengagements with classical literary careers. There are also chapters on other ways of concluding or extending a literary career: bookburning & figurative metempsychosis.
Introduction. Literary careers: classical models & their receptions-Hardie & Moore
1/Some Virgilian unities Michael-C.J. Putnam
2/There & back again: Horace's poetic career-Stephen Harrison 3/The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio- Alessandro Barchiesi & Hardie
4/An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia-S.J. Heyworth 5/Persona & satiric career in Juvenal-Catherine Keane
6/The indistinct literary careers of Cicero & Pliny the Younger- Roy Gibson & Catherine Steel
7/Reinventing Virgil's wheel: the poet & his work from Dante to Petrarch-Andrew Laird
8/Did Shakespeare have a literary career?-Patrick Cheney
9/New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton-Maggie Kilgour 10/Bookburning & the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil-Nita Krevans
11/Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges-Stuart Gillespie
12/Mirrored doubles: Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry & the poet's career-Nigel Smith
13/Dryden & the complete career-Raphael Lyne
14/Goethe's elegiac sabbatical-Joseph Farrell
15/Wordsworth's career prospects: peculiar language & public epigraphs-Nicola Trott
16/Epilogue. Inventing a life: a personal view of literary careers-Lawrence Lipking