The Aeneid Of Virgil A Verse Translation By Allen Mandelbaum Bantam Books 1972

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. Some personal libraries and some public libraries. This book is in good condition with a tear on the cover, see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. Partial text from Introduction; I was late come to a full encounter with the Aeneid. Three judgments stood in my way. One was a tag line of Mark Van Doren that echoed through my youth with tenacious resonance: "Homer is a world; Virgil, a style" (a late variant of Coleridge's: "If you take from Virgil his diction and metre, what do you leave him?"). The second was a passage in a book long since hallowed for me, Lukács' Die Theorie des Romans: "The heroes of Virgi live the cool and limited existence of shadows, nourished by the blood of noble zeal, blood that has been sacrificed in the attempt to recall what has forever disappeared." The third was Concetto Marchesi's personal version of the traditional comparison between Homer and Virgil in the most Tucid hit a of the iterature soe have, bie sy a cla the Aeneid that its virtues seemed secondary. Marchesi was so splendid on Lucretius, then central to me, that with an illogical extension of trust, I allowed his estimate of the Aeneid to usurp my own reading. All three obstacles were variations on the theme of Homer versus Virgil, using the father to club the son, coupled at times with some variations on the theme of Dante versus Virgil, using the son to club the father. Whichever way one turned in the line of affiliation (Homer-Virgil-Dante) -toward parricide or filicide-the middleman Virgil lost. Nor did another son of that same line, Milton, the English poet who filled the largest space within me when I was growing up, clear the way to the Aeneid. Milton was too

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