Author: O'Loughlin, Michael
Title: The Garlands of Repose :The Literary Celebration of Civic & Retired Leisure.The Traditions of Homer & Vergil, Horace & Montaigne
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv, 326 pp. Textual illustrations.. Slight page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Garlands of Repose; The Dream of Ease: Images of Leisure from Homer to Theocritus: The Public Context; The Private Focus;Hoc erat in votis: Civic & Retired Leisure in Vergil & Horace; Deus nobis haec otia fecit: From Christian Civic Leisure to the Retired Leisure of Montaigne.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Civic, Retired, Leisure, Homer, Horace, Vergil, Montaigne