<< message forwarded by listowner >> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:28:14 -0700 From: Gregory Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(I've finally rooted out my copy of Wilson Knight's biography and thought list members might enjoy a couple of excerpts. The speaker of the first passage is T.J. Haarhoff, another Vergilian spiritualist. JK is Jackson Knight.) "Vergil came to me regularly every Tuesday evening and during JK's translation of the Aeneid I put before him questions raised by JK--I always had my niece with me and she could see Vergil very clearly with his laurel crown, as he is at Mantua today--the famous statue. She has just recalled (in a letter to-day) how vivid and living Vergil was to her. This is quite genuine. Then V. would write replies to JK's questions in Latin. JK himself told me that on comparing V's interpretation with that of the scholars, he generally found it the simplest and the best. Once he said he had doubted a particular explanation and found confirmation later which supported V. It was a thrilling experience to have this communication and I find now that on the Appendix Vergiliana scholars like the American Vergilian Duckworth have come round to what V. said, in spite of scholars like Eduard Fraenkel.... When JK had difficulties with the Penguin people, V. said--let him give in on minor points--in the end he will triumph. And so it came about." (A letter from Jackson Knight, 22 April 1955): "Vergil sends me many messages and now some reach me directly at Exeter where he's told me to go slow and be extra careful with the 'second half.'" ++++++++++++++++++++++ Gregory Hays Dept. of Classics, 401 Cabell Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 http://members.aol.com/greghays ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
