Virgil and his meaning to the world of to-day.
Series: Our debt to Greece and Rome
Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Virgil -- Appreciation; Latin poetry -- Appreciation; Civilization, Modern -- Roman influences; Rome -- In literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 158-159.
Table of contents: title: The divine poet: the interpreter of life for all time -- Virgil’s world: its meaning for and its likeness to our own world -- Virgil’s predecessors: or, a study in the evolution of poetry -- Life of Virgil: as the background of his work and as an example to poets -- The eclogues and the new humanism: their influence on European poetry; the Virgiliana -- The georgics: life at peace; their influence and their importance, today -- Concentration on the epic -- The structure of the Aeneid, as a masterpiece of design and execution -- The human element, permanent and vital -- The Italo-Roman ideal, created by Virgil and continuing to our own day, as the hope of the world -- Virgil in the medieval and modern world -- Style and diction: the Virgilian hexameter.