Excerpt from Suggestions Introductory to a Study of the Aeneid That with rare exceptions the reader of Vergil finds himself utterly at a loss to see at any point the soul of the poet re ected in his work, ' and charges him with allowing his mind to become so warped by artificial in uences that he becomes reckless alike in major and in minor matters as to all the inner harmonies of his work, ' and, in deviating from the Homeric tradition, commits such gross errors as cah only be ascribed to torpor in the faculties, or ...
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Excerpt from Suggestions Introductory to a Study of the Aeneid That with rare exceptions the reader of Vergil finds himself utterly at a loss to see at any point the soul of the poet re ected in his work, ' and charges him with allowing his mind to become so warped by artificial in uences that he becomes reckless alike in major and in minor matters as to all the inner harmonies of his work, ' and, in deviating from the Homeric tradition, commits such gross errors as cah only be ascribed to torpor in the faculties, or defect in the habit of mind by which Homer should be ap preciated - one cannot but feel that, if all this be true, Vergil's position in literature is a phenomenon difficult to be accounted for. 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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