Author: O'LOUGHLIN, Michael.
Title: The Garlands of Repose: The Literary Celebration of Civic and Retired Leisure. The Traditions of Homer and Vergil, Horace and Montaigne.
Description: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Considers "...the imaginative structures that have expressed the Western idea of leisure, either as a consummation of a public context or as a retired alternative to that context...[concentrating on] Homer (the Odyssey), Vergil (Eclogues and Georgics), Horace (Satires, Odes, and Epistles), and Montaigne (Essays)." 326pp.

Keywords: literature literary leisure west western thought civic retired virgil homer horace montaigne