Word: aeneid
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Genius Versatile. But Fitzgerald's version could well make a radio narrative as was British Poet-Professor C. Day Lewis' Aeneid. Within his chosen limitations, Fitzgerald has succeeded brilliantly. He can be read at a fast clip, with the breath taken at the almost natural intervals of a relaxed but eloquent after-dinner entertainer with an unusually good scriptwriter. Doubleday has backed him up with good type and Picasso-style illustrations by Hans Erni. Fitzgerald did not underestimate the staggering intellectual difficulties of Englishing Homer. Literally, the first line of The Odyssey would read in English...
Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
Joseph and other sub-freshmen were examined orally by Tutor Remington and assigned a passage from the Aeneid, on which they had one week to write a theme. A week later, Vice-President Willard found Joseph's paper acceptable and admitted him, saying to the Judge, "Your Son is now one of us, and he is wellcom...
...harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...