Virgil

The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount ) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva , as Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) keeps women from reading great writers...

In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil ian epic.

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

The title-page quotes Virgil . The prologue expresses the hope that the product of her adventurous muse will prove equally acceptable to English and Scottish readers, who are all alike British.

While working on her W. P. Ker lecture in spring 1947, HW conceived the wish to work on Virgil : to do a really great translation of the Second Book of the Aeneid—Aeneas telling...

Her title-page quotes Thomson on the young mind fed by the light of truth, and Virgil on being made a poet. The book cost half a crown and was sold by the author herself at...

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

SL began her writing career with contributions to The Family Magazine. Her first publication was said to be a poem which appeared around 1838, when she was just fourteen years old.

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...