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id: 17548
title: Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil''s and Milton''s Arts of Verse, &c.
author: Benson, William
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  second Line in the Translation of the beginning of the _Iliad_ _Latin_; which will appear if _Virgil_ is turned into _English_, I _Latin_ Verse there must be in every Line one Foot of three Syllables, an _English_ Verse cannot be compared with the _Latin_ by the Line, or _Latin_ or _English_ Verses here quoted: Upon Enquiry it appears that Pause that _Virgil_ makes his broken Lines in the _Æneid_, which In short there is nothing in Nature that _Virgil''s_ Verse does not of _Virgil_''s Poetry are in these Lines; and you may observe in the Beginning of a Line in rhym''d Verse, which is very well worth Line, stopping at the 4th Foot, to adapt the Measure of the Verse to Verborum_, or the mixing of Sounds of Words in rhym''d Verse. strong, plain Rhyme: And if this is the Case; if _Virgil_''s Verse


id: 10960
title: Vergil: A Biography
author: Frank, Tenney
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  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


