Word: virgilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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VIRGIL THE NECROMANCER: STUDIES IN VIRGILIAN LEGENDS, by John Webster Spargo. Cambridge, Harvard University Press...
...mere monkery; more detachted observers are willing to admit that it is, above all, a tribute to the rich common life of the middle age. That cage, as Domenico Comparetti has carefully shown, understood and venerated the literary art of Virgil, and its educated men read and preserved the Virgilian manuscripts with a diligence not inferior to our own. The common man today does not believe that Virgil was a thaumaturge; but this testifies not so much to a popular rejection of thaumaturgy as to a popular ignorance of Virgil...
...pardonable feeling of afflatus attends such moments, an afflatus which the CRIMSON voiced one November day in 1915 when it moved into its present quarters on Plympton Street to become thereby the first college paper in the country to hold a building of its own. Indeed, on these occasions Virgilian metaphores spring full-armed from the typewriter keys. The Yale News can be forgiven for seeing itself as a phoenix rising from the Fayer-weather ashes. As for the CRIMSON, it has never felt inclined to personify itself as a bird, what with the horrible example of the Ibis...
...lecture, which is being held under the auspices of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is presented as part of Harvard's commemoration of the Virgilian bimillenary. This fall several departments of the University have arranged for lectures in commemoration of Virgil's birth. During the birthday week of Virgil last October, three lectures were given in the Fogg Museum under the auspices of the department of Classics...
...farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned 25,000 trees, shrubs and plants in his lengthy lays, specimens...