Word: epically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virgil's surprise for his readers is his combining of tragedy and epic in a remarkable and unheard of way", said Professor E. K. Rand '94, last Wednesday afternoon in the second of the series of lectures on "Four Great Poets...
...three great works of Virgil: the "Eclogues", "Georgics", and the "Aeneld". Of the Georgics he said , "Here the author's great art in the arrangement of matter and sense of climax is most evident. His phrases and lines flow on with an undulating rhythm, with occasional bursts into epic which do not, in spite of the decided change, break the continuity of the plot...
...perhaps irrelevant to connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly, still fewer know Virgil and Dante beyond a few memorized lines repeated parrot-fashion, and relatively a handful have ever dipped into Homer. For the rest, and for this intellectual aristocracy as well, Professor Palmer's lecture this afternoon will open a vista into an unknown world...
...epic characters, Northern Gods and Scandinavian heroes...
...least that is the opinion suggested by a recent discovery. A tablet has been found at Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...