Virgil

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount ) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a...

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...

This time her title-page quotation comes from Virgil .

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...

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...

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...