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Virgil | | Birth Date: |
October 15, 70 B.C. | | Death Date: |
September 21, 19 B.C. | | Place of Birth: |
Andes | | Place of Death: |
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 Biography of Virgil
9,422 words, approx. 31 pages
 The so-called Appendix Vergiliana represents a collection of minor poetry (some of it most attractive) of the fifty years (or more) after Virgil, attributed to him to gain credit and ensure their survival. Just possibly (though unlikely) two or three... summary from source:
Biography of Virgil
2,547 words, approx. 9 pages
Virgil (70-19 BC), or Publius Vergilius Maro, was the greatest Roman poet. The Romans regarded his "Aeneid," published two years after his death, as their national epic. Virgil's life spans the bloody upheavals of the last decades of the violent Roman... 
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 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Summary
82 words, approx. 0 pages 70-19 B.C. The foremost Roman poet of his day. Born in Mantua, he wrote, among other works, on agriculture in the Georgics (On farming). This didactic poem, written in hexameter verse, was published in 29 B.C. in four books. It was frequently cited by... summary from source:
 Virgil Information
2,764 words, approx. 9 pages
Publius Vergilius Maro Publius_Vergilius_Maro1.jpg}} | A bust of Vergil, from the entrance to his tomb in Naples , Italy. Born October 15 , 70 BCE Andes, North Italy Died September 21 , 19 BCE Brundisium Occupation Poet Nationality Roman Genres Epic...
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 AP News New online tool unmasks Wikipedia edits
8/15/2007: 282 words, approx. 1 pagesWhat edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions.As the Web encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikipedia encourages participants to adopt online user names,... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - Jan. 27
1/27/2007: 596 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Saturday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2007. There are 338 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mark Van Doren
8,513 words, approx. 28 pages
Van Doren was one of the most prolific men of letters in twentieth-century American writing. His work includes poetry (his Collected Poems 1922–1938 won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940), novels, short stories, drama, criticism, social commentary, and the editing of a number of popular anthologies. He wrote accomplished studies of Shakespeare, John Dryden, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, and served as literary editor and film critic for the Nation during the 1920s and 1930s. Van Doren'... summary from source:
Critical Essay by J. C. Shairp
7,720 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Shairp examines changing religious practices during the reign of Augustus, how these changes are embodied in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, and how Virgil's theological views impacted western literature.
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Critical Essay by T. S. Eliot
4,931 words, approx. 16 pages
Perhaps the most influential poet and critic to write in the English language during the first half of the twentieth century, Eliot is closely identified with many of the qualities denoted by the term Modernism: experimentation, formal complexity, artistic and intellectual eclecticism, and a classicist's view of the artist working at an emotional distance from his or her creation. He introduced a number of terms and concepts that strongly affected critical thought in his lifetime, among them the ide...
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