Cecil Day Lewis "Georgics Of Vergil" Poem Animation

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April 19, 2008

Heres a virtual movie od Cecil Day Lewis reading from The Georgics Of Vergil. Cecil Day Lewis), 1904--72, English author, b. Ireland. While he was still at Oxford, he became associated with a group of leftist poets led by W. H. Auden. After graduation he taught at various schools until 1935 and then decided to devote himself to writing. He was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1951 to 1956. and his early poetry is marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes. His later work, however, is more personal and metaphysical. Besides poetry, C. Day Lewis is noted for the collection of essays A Hope for Poetry (1934); for a verse translation of Vergil's Aeneid (1952); he was poet laureate of Great Britain.

The Legendary Vergil...

The great Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro was born October 15, 70 B.C. at Andes, near Mantua, in Cisalpine Gaul. He died 51 years later on September 21, 19 B.C. Vergil's influence on the world's literature has been immeasurable. Not only was his writing -- along with Seneca's, Cicero's, Ovid's, Aristotle's and Plato's continuously read throughout the Middle Ages,but even today he exerts an influence on poets and the college-bound.

The Georgics, the second major poem which Virgil composed, took seven years to write. He finished it in 29 B.C.E.; it was read to Augustus on his return from the east. This work consists of two thousand lines of poetry on the subject of agriculture, with patriotic overtones and rich mythological allusions. Although some consider this Virgils' best work, the poet was never completely satisfied with it, as he immediately started work on the Aeneid and never returned to it. Virgil requested on his deathbed that the Georgics be supressed; Augustus, however, intervened.

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