VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire, and in his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual and the State. From short pastoral poems he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature and an incalculable influence on Dante, Milton, Berlioz, Tennyson, and T.S. Eliot. In this concise introduction to the poetic achievement of Virgil, Griffin explores the thought of this great poet, placing him in his historical and literary context. |
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Page 59
... Ennius , written more than a hundred years earlier in the infancy of Latin literature , was by now too crude and provincial for the taste of refined contemporaries . Horace when he mentions Ennius always has a touch of irony or of ...
... Ennius , written more than a hundred years earlier in the infancy of Latin literature , was by now too crude and provincial for the taste of refined contemporaries . Horace when he mentions Ennius always has a touch of irony or of ...
Page 68
... Marlowe to that of a late play by Shakespeare . Sound - painting in verse is used by Virgil with great finesse . In Latin verse it could easily get out of hand , and there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which 68 Virgil.
... Marlowe to that of a late play by Shakespeare . Sound - painting in verse is used by Virgil with great finesse . In Latin verse it could easily get out of hand , and there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which 68 Virgil.
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Jasper Griffin. there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which have toppled over into the comical . Virgil generally avoids obtrusive effects , though occasionally he lets himself go , as for instance in the highly baroque description ...
Jasper Griffin. there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which have toppled over into the comical . Virgil generally avoids obtrusive effects , though occasionally he lets himself go , as for instance in the highly baroque description ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 20 |
the Muse in hobnails | 36 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 58 |
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