Virgil

In her preface JK explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it...

According to critic Mihoko Suzuki , The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One...

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) published the first of her small, Elsevir-format editions of classical authors (written in Latin throughout): the works of Virgil , as P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Nunc emendatiora.

She chose an epigraph from Virgil 's Georgics, and commissioned W. T. Benda for his spare and powerful illustrations, done with black brush-strokes on white. She disliked, however, the book jacket. She...

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , wrote a poem in praise of Dryden 's translation of Virgil , which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with...

The poems in SH 's collection Seeing Things resound with echoes of Virgil .

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...

AB published through the Freethought Publishing Company the pamphlet Sic Itur ad Astra; or, Why I Became a Theosophist.

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

This time her title-page quotation comes from Virgil .