The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age
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- Virgil
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION4. CHAPTER I. General Introduction.5. CHAPTER I. General Introduction. (continued 2)6. CHAPTER II. Virgil’s place in Roman Literature.7. CHAPTER III. Life and Personal Characteristics of Virgil.8. CHAPTER IV. The Eclogues.9. CHAPTER V. Motives, Form, National Interest, and Sources of the Georgics.10. CHAPTER VI. Structure and Composition of the Poem, in Relation To the Poem of Lucretius.11. CHAPTER VI. Structure and Composition of the Poem, in Relation To the Poem of Lucretius. (continued 2)12. CHAPTER VII. The Georgics as the representative poem of Italy.13. CHAPTER VIII. The Roman Epic before the time of Virgil.14. CHAPTER IX. Form and Subject of the Aeneid.15. CHAPTER X. The Aeneid As the Epic of the Roman Empire.16. CHAPTER XI. The Aeneid as an Epic Poem of Human Life.17. CHAPTER XI. The Aeneid as an Epic Poem of Human Life. (continued 2)18. Footnotes19. Footnotes (continued 2)20. Transcriber’s Note