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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE SIMPLE LIFE IN VERGIL'S BUCOLICS AND MINOR POEMS1 By Elizabeth F. Smiley Jersey Township High School, Jerseyville, Illinois This paper essays to set in order, from the works of a great poet, one of the least poetical of all themes--the labor of man that is for his mouth. It seems safe to say that interest in this quest bulks as large in the poems of Vergil as in the humble lives of long ago, and now; for the Golden Age had long since passed away, and the poet addresses himself as an apostle3 in a time of disillusionment and reconstruction. In heart and experience, Vergil was equipped, as few other men of genius, to co-operate in the social tasks of Augustus. His soul had taken shape amid scenes that he never ceased to love. He knew the life of rural Italy from the Padus to the Galaesus and entered into it with intelligent sympathy. He realized the anxieties and successes of agricultural pursuits;3 he had sincere faith in the moral strength of a self-supporting peasantry. To him Italy4 is by nature ideally endowed for wortmg out her own 1 It is fair to acknowledge that a paper professing to embody humdrum facts, yet dependent upon poetry for those facts, is open to certain recognized criticisms. The very nature of Hellenistic poetry, free to employ many models and traditions, makes that criticism all the more pertinent. Any conscientious objector may say immediately, especially of excerpts gleaned from the Eclogues: "That is not Roman at all. It is merely an echo from Theocritus, or others." For many motifs in the poems the objection is just. If, on the one hand, the shepherds both of the Idyls and the Eclogues weave baskets; and on the other, the sober-going Georgics recommend the task for idle hours and give many uses for such utensils, it seems correct to ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781153846943
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153846942
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 440 gr


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