Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final lecture in the series, which so far has included talks on Homer and Virgil will be concluded next, Wednesday, when Professor J. L. Lowes '03, professor of English, will speak on "Milton...
There is no loss without some small gain, This afternoon at Professor Rand's lecture on Virgil this was again demonstrated. Arriving at four o'clock I got a good seat, at 4.10 an undergraduate came in. I know he was an undergraduate because he wore those cute little knee pants. Draping his coat over the seat next to me he took the next and sat guard over the one on his other hand. As the hall filled several tried to take these seats--ranging from professors to those less learned but more insistent. To all with but two exceptions...
Dante, among the great figures of literature, is probably the least familiar. The material of Homer is known to most school-children; Virgil is still part of the nominal diet in preparation for college; Milton, too, is taught in the schools. But Dante, neither ancient nor modern, falls between...
...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...
Professor Rand spoke specifically on the 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...