The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the AeneidIn a discussion in which a comparison of Vergil and Homer becomes the pivot of criticism, the author analyzes basic themes, outlines the Vergilian structure, and indicates the way in which the characters and the events concerning them are related to the whole poem. The author shows how Vergil enlarged upon Homeric similes until they became transparent signs for inner events. He also examines the architecturally structured sequence of mood and argues that, since Vergil, mood has become to poetry what light is to painting. |
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Page 165
... Venus and Dido and the splendid banquet are clearly a progression of increasing illumination , followed by the hero's gloomy complaint about his fate and Venus ' words on Dido's black future . The relation of both destinies is ...
... Venus and Dido and the splendid banquet are clearly a progression of increasing illumination , followed by the hero's gloomy complaint about his fate and Venus ' words on Dido's black future . The relation of both destinies is ...
Page 191
... Venus ' words ( 1.535 f . ) , which awaken sympathy with Dido , both in the reader and Aeneas , have already paved the way for love . It might be said that Venus favored this love from the very beginning . See pp . 67-68 . 13. The ...
... Venus ' words ( 1.535 f . ) , which awaken sympathy with Dido , both in the reader and Aeneas , have already paved the way for love . It might be said that Venus favored this love from the very beginning . See pp . 67-68 . 13. The ...
Page 209
... Venus ' speech is in the exact middle : 1.241 : quem das finem , rex magne , laborum ? So is the climax of Jupiter's speech , the founding of Rome , I.275-277 . 5. Venus ' speech ends with the happy fate of Antenor to whom a new home in ...
... Venus ' speech is in the exact middle : 1.241 : quem das finem , rex magne , laborum ? So is the climax of Jupiter's speech , the founding of Rome , I.275-277 . 5. Venus ' speech ends with the happy fate of Antenor to whom a new home in ...
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