Virgil's Schoolboys The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England [Hardcover]

Virgil's Schoolboysadds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on teaching in theEclogues,Georgics, andAeneid, and the pedagogical theories and practices that dominated the spaces in which his poems came to be taught in the grammar schools of Renaissance England. Wallace argues not only that Virgil was a keen student of the elusive operations of instruction, but thatvitaeandscholiafrom antiquity to the Renaissance preserve a broad range of fractured acknowledgements that pedagogical questions supply his poems with their characteristic intellectual texture. In grammar schools all across Renaissance England 'the book of Maro' was a gateway to upper-form studies of theauctores. Even more significantly, it was a gateway to some of humanist pedagogy's most self-conscious meditations on the promise and fragility of the educational project.

Introduction
1. Virgil's Schooldays
2. Master, Scholar, Schoolbook
I. The Poet as Schoolbook
3. `I must read Virgil'
4. `Amo magistrum, I love the Maister'
5. The Place of Commentary and the Works of Amor
II. Pastoral and the Painful Schoolmaster
6. Echo, Eclogue, Dialogue
7. `The schoolmaister of Bacchus'
8. `now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone'
III. Placement and Pedagogy in the Georgics
9. `The rurall part of Virgil'
10. Virgil's Schoolroom
11. `Some boks have resistit, standeth stil'
12. Print and Pedagogy
IV. Forgetting Epic
13. After Troy
14. Virgil's Wild Goose
15. Epic Struggles
16. `A Palmer with a Rodde'
Conclusion: `Virgilius poetarum doctissimus'

This is a relatively short book, but it packs a great deal of erudition into its pages. Wallsë