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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... beauty is a quiet one , " Nietzsche said . There is no easy open road to the beauty within the poems of the Roman magician , the chaste Vergilius , who in life retreated quietly from the world and who in his poetry veiled feeling in ...
... beauty is a quiet one , " Nietzsche said . There is no easy open road to the beauty within the poems of the Roman magician , the chaste Vergilius , who in life retreated quietly from the world and who in his poetry veiled feeling in ...
Page 93
... beauty , youth , nobility , and courage ( VII.473 ) . His beauty and noble origin have already been mentioned ( VII.55 ) . He is the most handsome of the Italians ; this means that he is a noble youth ( VII.650 ) , because physical and ...
... beauty , youth , nobility , and courage ( VII.473 ) . His beauty and noble origin have already been mentioned ( VII.55 ) . He is the most handsome of the Italians ; this means that he is a noble youth ( VII.650 ) , because physical and ...
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... beauty . Something of his attitude passed into Vergil's pres- entation , for like Homer , Vergil ennobles and includes horror in the celebration of life and historic grandeur which con- stitutes his epic . The symbol of the temple in ...
... beauty . Something of his attitude passed into Vergil's pres- entation , for like Homer , Vergil ennobles and includes horror in the celebration of life and historic grandeur which con- stitutes his epic . The symbol of the temple in ...
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