Form and content in didactic poetry : [Fifth Nottingham classical literature symposium, held at the University of Nottingham on May 22nd, 1996

Philosopher Poets: Parmenides And Empedocles : M.r. Wright -- Response By C. Osborne: Was Verse The Default Form For Presocratic Philosophy? -- The Sequence Of Argument In Lucretius I : David Sedley -- Response By M. Gale: The Rhetorical Programme Of Lucretius I -- Didactic Poetry As 'popular' Form: A Study Of Imperatival Expressions In Latin Didactic Verse And Prose : Roy Gibson - Response By Alison Sharrock: Haud Mollia Iussa -- The Masculine Muse: Form And Content In The Latin Didactic Poetry Of Palingenius And Bruno : Yasmin Haskell -- The Didactic Poetry Of Erasmus Darwin : Robert Cockcroft -- Response By Richard Jenkyns. Edited By Catherine Atherton. Papers Presented At The 5th Nottingham Classical Literature Symposium, 1996. Includes Bibliographical References.