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Excerpt from Bucolica; Aeneis; Georgica, the Greater Poems of Virgil, Vol. 1: Containing the Pastoral Poems and Six Books of the �neid
Y general consent, the name of virgil stands first in rank among Roman poets. Others'may have excelled him in single respects, - in original vigor of thought, in elegance of diction, in ease of versification, in pure poetry of temperament but of what is best in the moral and intellectual life of Rome, refined and shaped by what is finest in the culture derived from Greece, combined in one, the poems of Virgil are the recognized and the noblest type. What is peculiar to these poems as literary compositions, their place in the history of literature, and especially their relation to that body of Greek poetry which furnished their model even to minute details, has been treated in the special intro ductions that accompany the text, and in the notes. A few additional words will suffice to tell what needs to be told of the poet's life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
