At 21:09 2/05/99 EDT, you wrote:
I was trying to make a modern day comparison with a writer/poet to
Virgil. I am having difficulty.
If it is epic that you are interested in look at any of the modern epic
writers, from Tolkien to Eddings. Look at the way that the common themes
of the epic recur - the journey, the temptations to be overcome, the
relationship with the gods or supernatural (reduced to a vague mysticism in
some cases) the magic or holy artifacts - Virgil's shield, Bilbo' ring -
and the culminating gathering of the forces of good and evil in a final
battle. Poets are harder, and it depends on what you call modern - there's
Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur, but thats C19th.
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