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The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

Virgil

On the fifth terrace of the Mountain of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil, ascending, meetStatius. Born in the century after Virgil's, Statius is the pagan poet whom Dante's scheme and passion redeem, proclaiming him a Christian. Before his isaware ...

The Aeneid

Virgil

Both are available in paperback. My own views on the poet are set out at greater length in Jasper Griffin: Virgil (Oxford, Past Master series, October 1986). A CHRONOLOGY OF VIRGtL 70 BC Virgil born near Mantua. Select Bibliography.

Virgil in English

Virgil

Perhaps no other writer has generated a longer and larger tradition of commentary, translation and imitation. From Chaucer to W. H. Auden and Robert Lowell, Virgil is a defining presence in English poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Charles Martindale

Contributions include: Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity ( R. J. Tarrant ); The Vergil commentary of Servius ( Don Fowler ); The Eclogues ( Charles Martindale ); Virgilian epic ( Duncan F. Kennedy ); Virgil and the cosmos: ...

Virgil

Jasper Griffin

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire.

Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II

Virgil

This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.

Virgil in the Renaissance

David Scott Wilson-Okamura

This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poemswere recycled.

Virgil

R. Alden Smith

Combining scholarly rigor and an accessible writing style, this book offers an insightful introduction to the world of Virgil.

The Aeneid

Publius Vergilius Maro

W. A. Camps, An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid, Oxford University Press, London 1969 K. W. Gransden, Virgil: The Aeneid, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990 Kenneth Quinn, Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description, University of ...

Aeneid

Virgil

This is an Aeneid that the first-time reader can grasp and enjoy, and whose rendition of Virgil's subtleties of thought and language will enthrall those already familiar with the epic.

Georgics

Philip Hardie

Conington's commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil's Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader.This volume includes Virgil's text of the ...

Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry

Preview

In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors.

Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

K. W. Gransden

In the course of re-establishing the value and importance of Books VII-XII of Virgil's Aeneid, this study also explores in some detail his use of Homer's Iliad.

Virgil: The Aeneid

K. W. Gransden

This 2004 guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of Virgil's epic, and discusses the poet's use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most celebrated episodes in the poem, including the tragedy of Dido ...

Brimstone

Robert B. Parker

Gunslinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch rescue Allie French, Virgil's former sweetie who ran off to become a prostitute, and head to Brimstone, south Texas.

Virgil's Aeneid

Virgil

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The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

Philip Hardie

And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton.

Conington's Virgil: Eclogues

John Conington

Conington's commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil's Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader.This volume includes Conington's general ...

Beatrice and Virgil

Yann Martel

This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil. It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry.

The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia

Rachel Jacoff

Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia Rachel Jacoff, Robert Ball Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp. From. Ignorance. to. Knowledge: The. Marvelous. in. Inferno . 13. :* Doug/as. In Inferno 13, in the second zone of the circle of the violent, the wayfarer ...

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Virgil W. Dean

The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate Virgil W. Dean. Copyright © 2006 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America ...