id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 10960 Frank, Tenney Vergil: A Biography .txt text/plain 42799 2477 70 The reason for attempting a new biography of Vergil at the present time This poem reveals the fact that Vergil did not, like the young men of is clear from all of Vergil's references to Caesar that the great general it Vergil begs pardon for sending a poem of so trivial a nature at a time at Rome the new poets naturally chose the more romantic myths of the old By the time Vergil wrote the Aeneid the Roman world and Horace's _Ars Poetica_ written many years later shows that Vergil had evidence that Vergil began an epic at this time, some fifteen years Vergil was then living at Naples, and we can picture the poet to find that Vergil's school friend, Varius, in his poem on Caesar's Vergil's passage is obvious.[2] The poet hearing of Messalla's remarkable [Footnote 8: Vergil, _Eclogue_ IX, 26-29.] it would seem--gave Vergil an opportunity to recognize the new poet, and ./cache/10960.txt ./txt/10960.txt