Publisher's Synopsis
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 in?uence 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.
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