Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid

Francesca Bugliani Knox is Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, UK. She is the editor of Ronald Knox: A Man for all Seasons (2016).

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Foreword
(Charles Martindale, University of Bristol, UK)

Introduction: The Context of Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil
(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)

Note on the Lecture List (Literae Humaniores) in The Oxford University Gazette (18 January 1912)

Editing Criteria

Part I: Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil

1. Virgil’s Political Outlook
2. Virgil’s Religious Outlook
3. Virgil’s Romance and Pathos
4. Virgil’s Art and Treatment of His Story
5. Virgil’s Appreciation of Scenery
6. Virgil’s Use of His Sources
7. Note on the Composition of Book 3
8. Characteristics of Virgil’s Style and Versification

Part II: Critical Essays

‘Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil: “A Wealth of Delicate Tenderness”’
(Matthew McGowan, Fordham University, USA)

‘Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil: their Relevance for Scholarly Interpretation of the Aeneid’
(Francesco Montarese, MPW College London, UK)

‘The Setting of the Lecture given by Monsignor Ronald Knox to the Virgil Society on 31 March 1946’
(John Mair, UK)

Appendix: ‘J. E. Lowe, Ronald Knox and the Virgil Society lecture entitled “The Problem of Dido and Aeneas”’
(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)

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Index