> > I was wondering why Virigil wasn' proud of the Aeneid. > Why did he want > > it burned? It couldn't have been merely because it > wasn't finished... > > Virgil wasn't proud of the Aeneid because it wasn't > perfect/finished. > Virgil was a true perfectionist. The Georgics took him > seven years to > finish (it reallyisn't all that long of a poem).
I thought that that might be the case, after all most creative people feel they could have done better - the stuff on the page, isn't quite what seemed to be in the mind. But do we know this is what Virgil thought? Did he say so somewhere? Or did one of his contemporaries say thaat of him? Patrick Roper > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
