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This is in no sense a bibliography of Virgil. Apart from the lists given in general classical bibliographies (especially of course Marouzeau’s L’Année philologique) Virgil has been particularly well served recently by G. E. Duckworth’s two bibliographical surveys, and by R. G. Austin’s ‘Bibliography of Virgil’. My aim here is to try to give in modern terms a general survey of the nature and importance of Virgil’s poetry, based on a broad and selective consideration of recent important work of a critical kind. The reader must be warned that the literary judgements made are essentially subjective: the intention is not to give a tabulated list of views, but to endeavour to present a personal synthesis. Two important forthcoming books which I have not been able to include should be mentioned here: K. Quinn’s Virgil’s Aeneid; a Critical Description (Routledge); and the volume on Virgil in Dudley and Dorey’s series Studies in Latin Literature and Its Influence (Routledge).

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New Surveys in the Classics , Volume 1: Virgil , 1967 , pp. 3 - 5
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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page no 3 note 1 G. E. Duckworth, Class. World li (1957-8), 89 ff., ibid. lvii (1963-4), 193 ff.; R. G. Austin, A Bibliography of Virgil, J.A.C.T. Paper No. 1, 1963, and supplement, 1965. See also the yearly summaries by A. G. McKay in Vergilius (the journal of the Vergilian Society of America); the reviews of important modern works in the Proceedings of the Virgil Society; the section by T. E. Wright on the Augustan poets in Fifty Years of Classical Scholarship, ed. Platnauer, M. (Oxford, 1954)Google Scholar; the summaries by V. Pöschl in Anz.f. Alt.-Wiss. (1950, 1953, 1959), and by G. Radke, Gymnasium (1957, 1964); and for tabulated bibliography K. Büchner’s article s.v. Vergilius in Pauly-Wissowa RE (1955) (also separately published).

page no 3 note 2 See Mackail’s Aeneid, Intro, xxiii ff., Knight, W. F. Jackson, Roman Vergil1 (Peregrine, 1966), chap, ii Google Scholar; Virgile, Bucoliques, E. de Saint-Denis (Budé), Intro. pp. v ff.; and (for the authorities) Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae, ed. Hardie, C. (O.C.T.). Highet, G. A., Poets in a Landscape (London, 1957), 56 Google Scholar ff., gives a popular and readable account.

page no 3 note 3 There are still some scholars who argue that Virgil wrote most or even all of these poems, but the general consensus is that Catalepton v and viii and perhaps one or two others are by Virgil while the rest (Ciris, Culex, Lydia, Dirae, Moretum, Copa, Priapea) are by contemporaries or imitators of Virgil.

page no 3 note 4 Sainte-Beuve, C. A., Étude sur Virgile (Paris, 1857)Google Scholar.

page no 4 note 1 Sellar, W. Y., The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil (Oxford, 1877; third ed. 1897)Google Scholar; Glover, T. R., Virgil (London, 1904; seventh ed. 1942)Google Scholar; Fowler, W. Warde, Virgil’s Gathering of the Clans (Oxford, 1916)Google Scholar; Aeneas at the Site of Rome (Oxford, 1918); The Death of Turnus (Oxford, 1919); Mackail, J. W., Virgil and His Meaning to the World of Today (London, 1923)Google Scholar; The Aeneid of Virgil (Oxford, 1930), Intro.; Prcscott, H. W., The Development of Virgil’s Art (Chicago, 1927)Google Scholar; Rand, E. K., The Magical Art of Virgil (Harvard, 1931)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page no 4 note 2 Some of the most important books of the last twenty-five years are: Bowra, C. M., From Virgil to Milton (London, 1945)Google Scholar; Tillyard, E. M. W., The English Epic and its Background (London, 1954)Google Scholar; Brooks Otis, Virgil: a Study in Civilized Poetry (Oxford, 1963)Google Scholar; Putnam, M. C. J., The Poetry of the Aeneid (Harvard, 1965)Google Scholar; Knight, W. F. Jackson, Roman Vergil (London, 1944; second ed. 1966)Google Scholar; Guillemin, A. M., Virgile (Paris, 1951)Google Scholar; Perret, J., Virgile, l’homme et l’œuvre (Paris, 1952; second ed. 1965)Google Scholar; Pöschl, V., Die Dichtkunst Virgils: Bild und Symbol in der Aeneis (Innsbruck, 1950, trans. Seligson, Michigan, 1962)Google Scholar. See also the collection of critical essays in Twentieth Century Vieus: Virgil, ed. Commager, Steele (New Jersey, 1966)Google Scholar; and Klingner’s, F. essays in Römische Geistesicelt4 (Munich, 1961)Google Scholar, and Studien zur griechischen und römischen Literatur (Zürich-Stuttgart, 1964).