Re: VIRGIL: What did TS Eliot say of the Aeneid?

[James M. Pfundstein]

Hieronymus Prechtl wrote:
Read somewhere -- can't find it now -- what TS Eliot said
about the Aeneid.  I think he called it the classic of classics.
Does anyone know where I might find this?
Gratias vobis ago.
Ambrosius
"What is a Classic?" in _On Poetry and Poets_ (1957), pp. 52-74. 
(Originally the 1944 Presidential Address to the Virgil Society; 
published separately by Faber & Faber in 1945.)

From the peroration: "No modern language can hope to produce a 
classic, in the sense in which I have called Virgil a classic. Our 
classic, the classic of all Europe, is Virgil."

JMP("Palaemon")
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