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An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm ...

An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm ...

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 ...
The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

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

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 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

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

Virgil

Jasper Griffin

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire.
Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry

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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors.
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Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

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

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

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's Aeneid

Virgil

"Editions and helpful books": p. 26-28.
University of Iowa Studies: Series on aims and progress of ...

University of Iowa Studies: Series on aims and progress of ...

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... Carl Emil Seashore, Dean of the Graduate College; Lee Wallace Dean, Dean of the College of Medicine ; Frank Thomas Breene, Dean of the College of Dentistry; Paul Clifford Packer, Dean of the College of Education; Edward Henry Lauer, ...
The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

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.
Education Directory: Higher education

Education Directory: Higher education

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Conington's Virgil: Eclogues

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 ...
Lawrence

Lawrence

Virgil W. Dean

Sara Robinson, born Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence in 1827 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, followed her husband of four years, Charles Robinson, to Kansas Territory in spring 1855. Although committed to making Kansas a free state, she ...
State of Iowa ... Official Register

State of Iowa ... Official Register

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Carl Emil Seashore, Ph.D., LL.D., Dean, Graduate College. Clement Clarence Williams, B.S. in C.E., C.E., Dean, College of Engineering. Paul Clifford Packer, Ph.D., Dean, College of Education. Chester Arthur Phillips, Ph.D., Dean, College of ...
Citizen Explorer: The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike

Citizen Explorer: The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike

Jared Orsi

Virgil W. Dean. Special issue, Kansas History 29 (Spring 2006): 34–47. Oliva, Leo E., ed. “'Sent Out by Our Great Father': Zebulon Montgomery Pike's Journal and Route across Kansas, 1806.” In “The Pike Expedition: A Bicentennial Reflection ...
Beatrice and Virgil

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.
James Dean: Little Boy Lost

James Dean: Little Boy Lost

Joe Hyams

Employs interviews with Dean's friends and family members to present a portrait of Dean as a brilliant actor, troubled son, and rebel
Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea

Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea

William T. Bowers

See Dean, General Dean's Story, pp. 11-12. 11 Ibid. Dean's story is told in Appleman, South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, p. 177. 12 Intervs, John A. Cash with Bradley Biggs, 15 Aug 88; Walter Bufford, 13 Mar 89; Ellis Dean, 7 Aug 88; ...
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James Dean: Rebel Life

James Dean: Rebel Life

John Howlett

Filled with the testimonies of the actors, directors and ex-lovers who knew Dean best, and lavishly illustrated with candid photos (from boyhood up to Dean's untimely death) and sumptuous film stills, the book provides a uniquely personal ...

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