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W. R. Johnson (1)

Author of Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid

For other authors named W. R. Johnson, see the disambiguation page.

W. R. Johnson (1) has been aliased into Walter Ralph Johnson.

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Works by W. R. Johnson

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Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid (1976) 38 copies

The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry (1982) 17 copies

Lucretius in the Modern World (Classical Inter/faces) (2000) 12 copies

Horace and the Dialectic of Freedom: Readings in Epistles 1 (1993) 11 copies

Luxuriance and Economy: Cicero and the Alien Style (1971) 3 copies

A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (2009) 2 copies

Associated Works

Works have been aliased into Walter Ralph Johnson.

Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991) — Foreword — 103 copies

The Essential Horace (1983) — Translator — 56 copies

Reading Vergils Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (1999) — Contributor — 35 copies

A Companion to Catullus (2007) — Contributor — 25 copies

Classical Closure (1997) — Contributor — 13 copies

Why Horace?: A Collection of Interpretations (1999) — Contributor — 12 copies

Poets and Critics Read Vergil (2001) — Contributor — 7 copies

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans (2004) — Contributor — 7 copies

Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David Grene (1999) — Contributor — 7 copies

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies

VIRGIL: 2000 YEARS [ARETHUSA 14.1] (1981) — Contributor — 3 copies

Arethusa (vol 25 no 1): Reconsidering Ovid's Fasti — Contributor — 2 copies

Arethusa (vol 23 no 1): Pastoral Revisions — Contributor — 1 copy

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The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry (Winner – 1983)

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