Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008
Virgil Lives!
By Jasper Griffin
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam
Yale University Press, 1,082 pp., $100.00
T.S. Eliot, contemplating in lordly style the whole of Western literature, found only one author who fully deserved the title of classic: the Roman poet Virgil. His poems, written in the generation immediately before the birth of Christ, were fully mature in style; they were also central in position, poised at the unique and crucial moment between the great works of the pagan classical world and the revelation of the new, all-conquering Christian religion.
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