I was wondering why Virigil wasn' proud of the Aeneid.
Why did he want
it burned? It couldn't have been merely because it
wasn't finished...
Virgil wasn't proud of the Aeneid because it wasn't
perfect/finished.
Virgil was a true perfectionist. The Georgics took him
seven years to
message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:58:40 -0400
From: Jim O'Hara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick Roper is doubly right here, first in observing that it might
well have been that Vergil wanted the Aeneid destroyed because he wasn't
satisfied with it, and
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Wilson-Okamura [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
At 11:03 AM 10/18/01 +0100, Patrick Roper wrote:
I thought that that might be the case, after all most creative people
feel they could have done better - the stuff on the page, isn't quite
what seemed to be in the mind.
