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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... result of the particular conditions of Roman literature as it developed from translations of the Greek . If it were , this whole most peculiar development would have to be considered an accident . Nor did it , as Heinze maintained , result ...
... result of the particular conditions of Roman literature as it developed from translations of the Greek . If it were , this whole most peculiar development would have to be considered an accident . Nor did it , as Heinze maintained , result ...
Page 71
... result of the situation and not of the queen's character.26 The exact opposite is true . Everything she does and all that she suffers springs from her innermost being . She is doomed to die , not because of the situation , but because ...
... result of the situation and not of the queen's character.26 The exact opposite is true . Everything she does and all that she suffers springs from her innermost being . She is doomed to die , not because of the situation , but because ...
Page 87
... result of this deceptive hope , of her inability to abandon her love . At the moment when Aeneas cuts the ship's ... results from the story THE PRINCIPAL FIGURES 87.
... result of this deceptive hope , of her inability to abandon her love . At the moment when Aeneas cuts the ship's ... results from the story THE PRINCIPAL FIGURES 87.
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