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... vision — Virgil's unforgettable picture of a boy falling in love is seen through the eyes of an adolescent not yet in his teens . Scenes are vividly realized , but only for a moment , the light tends to shimmer , shift and waver , and ...
... vision — Virgil's unforgettable picture of a boy falling in love is seen through the eyes of an adolescent not yet in his teens . Scenes are vividly realized , but only for a moment , the light tends to shimmer , shift and waver , and ...
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... vision of the past , of poetic history ; in 4 he gives a vision of the future , of poetic prophecy . There was still a partially unpaid debt to his friend Gallus , and he chose to end the Eclogues with a tribute making clear that he ...
... vision of the past , of poetic history ; in 4 he gives a vision of the future , of poetic prophecy . There was still a partially unpaid debt to his friend Gallus , and he chose to end the Eclogues with a tribute making clear that he ...
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... vision , mutually important and meaningful . Unlike Annibale Caracci or Claude , his contemporary , Poussin's ... vision of the past ; the antiquities and the literature were the mainspring of his inspiration and his vision . The ...
... vision , mutually important and meaningful . Unlike Annibale Caracci or Claude , his contemporary , Poussin's ... vision of the past ; the antiquities and the literature were the mainspring of his inspiration and his vision . The ...
Contents
The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Aeneid Alcinous Anchises ancient Apollo Apollonius Argonautica artist Ascanius Augustan Baiae Book bronze bull Campania cauldron century Cephalon Classical Claude Claude Lorrain Claude's context Cumae Cumaean Daedalus Dante Dante's Daphnis death Deiphobe Dido Dido's divine door Dryden earth Eclogues epic episode Flavian Gaia Gallus Georgics gods Golden Greek Hannibal hero heroic Homer Horace human Icarus idyllic Iliad inspiration Italy J. M. W. Turner Juno Jupiter labyrinth landscape Latin Latium legend literary lived London looked Maze Maker Minos Minotaur myth narrative nature nekuia Nicolas Poussin Odyssean Odysseus Ovid painting Pallas Pasiphaë passage pastoral perhaps pietas PLATE poem poet poetic poetry prophecy Punica rock Roman Rome scene sculpture sense setting Sibyl Silius Sixth Aeneid souls speak spirit Statius storm Thebaid theme Theocritus tradition tragic tripod Trojan Troy Turnus underworld Valerius Venus Virgil Virgilian vision W. F. Jackson Knight