VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published. |
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... sing : from King David to the Old English Caedmon there is in fact a connection between shepherds and song . But Theocritus makes his rustics sing in a style very different from that of anything which might have been heard on the lips ...
... sing : from King David to the Old English Caedmon there is in fact a connection between shepherds and song . But Theocritus makes his rustics sing in a style very different from that of anything which might have been heard on the lips ...
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... sing to your hills of my suffering , you Arcadians who alone know how to sing . O what soft repose my bones would find , if one day your pipes should tell of my unhappy love ! Would that I had been one of you , a herdsman of your flocks ...
... sing to your hills of my suffering , you Arcadians who alone know how to sing . O what soft repose my bones would find , if one day your pipes should tell of my unhappy love ! Would that I had been one of you , a herdsman of your flocks ...
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... sing ' ; the pastoral poet plays on the Pan - pipes ; the rhythms of verse are intimately connected with dancing ... singing . The understated conclusion rounds off the collection with a dying fall , like that of Milton's Lycidas : So ...
... sing ' ; the pastoral poet plays on the Pan - pipes ; the rhythms of verse are intimately connected with dancing ... singing . The understated conclusion rounds off the collection with a dying fall , like that of Milton's Lycidas : So ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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