Modern receptions and their interpretative implications
Duncan F. Kennedy
To offer a survey of modern receptions Virgil in this chapter would be to follow, with unequal footsteps and all too close behind, Theodore Ziolkowski's magisterial account his the Moderns, which appeared as recently 1993. Ziolkowski suggests that Virgil's presence twentieth century is particularly apparent cultural icon avatar appropriated by poets, novelists, historians politicians configure their aspirations anxieties period between two world wars:
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