Virgilian

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• In the space of thirty stanzas, then, the protagonist's relationship to his lady becomes a domesticated version of the infamous Virgilian scene.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Second, it sets the narrative in motion by placing it into the larger (and more Virgilian) context, where the stresses on the human characters are set off against the straining of the goddesses, Juno and Venus.

  Academic text (2000)

• Already in the earliest subtext, that of the Virgilian epic, Carthage appears in two different yet complementary roles.

  Academic text (1998)

• Has the Old French author synthesized and recuperated two Virgilian episodes and an Ovidian parallel and fused them into one medieval wonder?

  Academic text (1994)

• "The song of poetry itself, the order ushered in by the sacred birth, the new age, the nation: the poet needs to find a place for these words in the poem itself, suggesting that the work of poetry, then, is to imagine a world in which these Virgilian values might again find a central, organizing role, or be put, as Heaney would say, to present use.

  Academic text (2007)

• I shall here examine the reception and reconceptualization of the Virgilian scenario as found in these two adaptations to appreciate the ambiguity and discontinuity of Virgil's influence.

  Academic text (1994)

• This, again, might be a good description of Heaney's own poetry, and his vision of a kind of practical proletarian pastoral makes the reappearance of the Virgilian shepherd in Electric Light a key event for understanding Heaney's late poetics.

  Academic text (2007)

• The poet's new work is deeply inspired by the Virgilian themes of love and loss.

• Many critics have noted the Virgilian influence in the narrative structure of the novel.

• Her style reflects a Virgilian focus on the relationship between nature and human experience.

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