Virgil

Standard Name: Virgil

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Textual Production Annie Besant
AB published through the Freethought Publishing Company the pamphlet Sic Itur ad Astra; or, Why I Became a Theosophist.
The Latin quotation which opens the title comes from Virgil 's Aeneid. It means...
Textual Production Ann Fisher
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...
Textual Production Anne Francis
This time her title-page quotation comes from Virgil .
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
The poems in SH 's collection Seeing Things resound with echoes of Virgil .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4601 (7 June 1991): 28
“Seamus Heaney — Biographical”. Nobelprize.org.
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Mary Carleton
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...
Textual Production Willa Cather
She chose an epigraph from Virgil 's Georgics,
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989.
90
and commissioned W. T. Benda for his spare and powerful illustrations, done with black brush-strokes on white.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.
35
She disliked, however, the book jacket. She...
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House, 2011.
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Textual Production Mary Lady Chudleigh
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...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kavanagh
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...

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