Virgil

HW 's preface reflects her wide reading, addresses the various traditions—from pagan to Virgil ian—that went into the lyrics she translates, and makes it clear that she envisages her anthology as a companion to The...

In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil ian epic.

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) keeps women from reading great writers...

The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva , as Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...

Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.

While working on her W. P. Ker lecture in spring 1947, HW conceived the wish to work on Virgil : to do a really great translation of the Second Book of the Aeneid—Aeneas telling...

UKLG published Lavinia, a novel about the Italian princess of that name mentioned in Virgil 's Aeneid, who marries the noble exiled Trojan Aeneas and so becomes the mother of Rome.

The title-page quotes Virgil . The prologue expresses the hope that the product of her adventurous muse will prove equally acceptable to English and Scottish readers, who are all alike British.

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...