Excerpt from Vergil and the English Poets From the days when Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus wrote epics in imitation of the Aeneid, and Columella com posed a verse treatise on horticulture after the manner Of the Georgics, and Calpurnius Siculus Copied the Vergilian style and subject - matter in his Eclogues, the influence Of Vergil upon the literature Of the world has been a constant force. Even in this practical, scientific twentieth century, a newspaper editor refers to his E'clogues in the heat Of a ...
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Excerpt from Vergil and the English Poets From the days when Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus wrote epics in imitation of the Aeneid, and Columella com posed a verse treatise on horticulture after the manner Of the Georgics, and Calpurnius Siculus Copied the Vergilian style and subject - matter in his Eclogues, the influence Of Vergil upon the literature Of the world has been a constant force. Even in this practical, scientific twentieth century, a newspaper editor refers to his E'clogues in the heat Of a political campaign, the echo of a half-forgotten passage learned in school-days comes back to a soldier in the trenches, an epic poem on the Volsung story is modeled on the struc ture Of the Aeneid, and the poet-laureate of England publishes a cento of translations of a brief passage in the sixth book, with a version of his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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