Part 2 — CHAPTER II.
Reading edition
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Virgil—His earliest verses—His life and character—The minor poems —The Eclogues—The Georgics—Virgil's love of Nature—His aptitude for epic poetry—The scope of the Aeneid—The Aeneid a religious poem —Its relation to preceding poetry.
APPENDIX.—Note I. Imitations of Virgil in Propertius, Ovid, and Manilius, " II. On the shortening of final o in Latin poetry, " III. On parallelism in Virgil's poetry, " IV. On the Legends connected with Virgil.