VIRGIL: T. S. Eliot on diction

2003-05-05 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
I am looking for something in T. S. Eliot's literary criticism, a comment to the effect that, given world enough and time, Dante and Shakespeare would have found a use for every word in their respective languages; some words, though, Virgil would never use. Does anyone recall where this is from?

VIRGIL: Ruydolf Steiner on Dante, Virgil, and initiation

2003-05-05 Thread Larry Ely
Rudolf Steiner had a vast amount to say regarding the process of initiation, which is a phase or training meant to orient one in the spiritual world while still in the physical world, and thereby orient one more fully and more meaningfully in the physical world before passing into the spiritual

VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-05 Thread Patrick Roper
Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could

Re: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-05 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman