See Gareth Reeves' _T. S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet_ (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1989). Reeves references much of Eliot's own writing about Virgil,
especially Eliot's book, _What is a Classic?_ and Eliot's essays, "What is
a Classic?" (1944) and "Virgil and the Christian World" (1951), both
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 22:48:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ozymandias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Since both state-sponsored poetry and national epic are essentially dead
forms, a modern poet similar to Virgil would be difficult to find. In
American history, Robert Frost and Walt Whitma
