Note 11 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE

W. Y. Sellar in The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age, Virgil, Oxford (3d edition), 1908, analyzes under convenient headings Vergil’s position in Latin literature. Henry Nettleship’s discussions in Lectures and Essays, Oxford, 1875, 1885, have not been superseded, though they have evidently been suggestive to more recent critics. Sainte-Beuve’s Étude sur Virgile, Paris, n. d., and T. R. Glover’s Virgil, London, 1904 (4th edition, 1920), appeal more to the general reader. R. Y. Tyrrell’s chapter in his Latin Poetry, Boston, 1895, is unsympathetic with Vergil the artist. Most of the innumerable editions of the Æneid have little to say of his poetic art. This is specifically the subject of M. Marjorie Crump’s The Growth of the Æneid, Oxford, 1920, which, though little developed, is a distinct contribution to technical study. But the book on Vergilian epic is the exhaustive work of Richard Heinze, Virgils epische Technik, Leipzig, 1902 (2d edition. 1908, 3d edition, 1915). References are to pages of the third edition.