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Virgil, [The writer says that owing to the fact that a knowledge of Latin is no longer required for matriculation, today many otherwise educated people know Virgil only by hearsay. In this critical essay he sets out to remedy this by giving an intensive study of the poetry itself, its peculiar grace and the characters it portrays], Each Latin excerpt, some shorter Greek, immediately followed by an English translation,
by Letters, F. J. H.,
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- first
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About This Item
published by Sheed & Ward, London, 1946,. see description. first edition, slim 8vo, 168pp, with substantial running footnotes, original cloth, dustwrapper with a number of mended tears and also an unmended one (2cm), contents very clean, overall good.
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- Bookseller
- Crouch Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97265
- Title
- Virgil, [The writer says that owing to the fact that a knowledge of Latin is no longer required for matriculation, today many otherwise educated people know Virgil only by hearsay. In this critical essay he sets out to remedy this by giving an intensive study of the poetry itself, its peculiar grace and the characters it portrays], Each Latin excerpt, some shorter Greek, immediately followed by an English translation,
- Author
- Letters, F. J. H.,
- Format/Binding
- See description
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- published by Sheed & Ward, London, 1946,
- Keywords
- Classical Greek and Roman Literature and Civilisation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical Civilisation, Latin;
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About Crouch Rare Books
Out-of-print and antiquarian books and maps
Established 1970
Established 1970
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