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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This kind of beginning was not borrowed from the Odyssey , certainly , for that epic opens much more peacefully . If there is any parallel in Homer , it is in the plague which opens the Iliad . Indeed , the entire Aeneid ...
This kind of beginning was not borrowed from the Odyssey , certainly , for that epic opens much more peacefully . If there is any parallel in Homer , it is in the plague which opens the Iliad . Indeed , the entire Aeneid ...
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A goal - directed movement is dramatic , while one seemingly without a goal is epic.31 Vergil's art would be inconceivable without the Greek drama , for that is where the idea of unity first found a perfect poetic form by bringing all ...
A goal - directed movement is dramatic , while one seemingly without a goal is epic.31 Vergil's art would be inconceivable without the Greek drama , for that is where the idea of unity first found a perfect poetic form by bringing all ...
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Something of his attitude passed into Vergil's presentation , for like Homer , Vergil ennobles and includes horror in the celebration of life and historic grandeur which constitutes his epic . The symbol of the temple in the proem of ...
Something of his attitude passed into Vergil's presentation , for like Homer , Vergil ennobles and includes horror in the celebration of life and historic grandeur which constitutes his epic . The symbol of the temple in the proem of ...
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| Title | The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the Aeneid Volume 117 of Ann Arbor paperbacks University of Michigan classics |
| Author | Viktor Pöschl |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0472061704, 9780472061709 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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