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Page 121
... literary composition . We see this very clearly in the imitation of his phrases and rhythms by other hexameter poets from Ovid onwards ; we see it in the discussions about him preserved in Aulus Gellius ; and we see it most ob- viously ...
... literary composition . We see this very clearly in the imitation of his phrases and rhythms by other hexameter poets from Ovid onwards ; we see it in the discussions about him preserved in Aulus Gellius ; and we see it most ob- viously ...
Page 136
... literary method is diffused over a wider area . What Dryden saw in him is true in part ; what Tennyson saw in him is true in part . Our generation can more easily appreciate Virgil's complexity because of the long and varied literary ...
... literary method is diffused over a wider area . What Dryden saw in him is true in part ; what Tennyson saw in him is true in part . Our generation can more easily appreciate Virgil's complexity because of the long and varied literary ...
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... literary tradition ; and , with the stupendous learning proper to his epoch and still more to himself , there was no lack of literary tradition to follow . This might seem not worth saying . But it is . Virgil's obvious use of literary ...
... literary tradition ; and , with the stupendous learning proper to his epoch and still more to himself , there was no lack of literary tradition to follow . This might seem not worth saying . But it is . Virgil's obvious use of literary ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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