Re: VIRGIL: silver age

1999-01-29 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >From: Karla Pollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:02:02 -0500 > >Somehow I have the vague impression that this question has been asked >before on this list, but still: Does anybody know 'off the cuff'

VIRGIL: silver age

1999-01-29 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
From: Karla Pollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:02:02 -0500 Somehow I have the vague impression that this question has been asked before on this list, but still: Does anybody know 'off the cuff' where the expressions 'Silver Latin' and 'Silver Age' (as opposed to Virgil's and Ci

Re: VIRGIL: Silver Age

1998-06-22 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JAMES C Wiersum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Just a note to say how much I appreciated the comment on the "Silver >Age." It was very insightful. How would Tennyson, who has been called >"virgilian," fit in though? Or, is this why Tennyson has always been a >bit suspec

VIRGIL: Silver Age

1998-06-21 Thread JAMES C Wiersum
Just a note to say how much I appreciated the comment on the "Silver Age." It was very insightful. How would Tennyson, who has been called "virgilian," fit in though? Or, is this why Tennyson has always been a bit suspect by the intelligentsia from the time of the Victorian era? He was more Latin t