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Virgil's Georgics: A First-Century Foxfire?

Virgil's Georgics: A First-Century Foxfire? Virgil's Georgics: A First-Century Foxfire? Parks Lanier Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1981, pp. 44-46 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0025 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441753/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:21 GMT from JHU Libraries if ftï �«? OT VIRGIL'S GEORGICS: A FIRST-CENTURY FOXFIRE? Parks Lanier But thou — oh, why run back where fears destroy Peace? Why not climb the blissful mountain yonder, The cause and first beginning of all joy? Virgil to Dante (Inferno I, 76-78, trans. Sayers) Just as we do not always know what might kill us, neither do we always know what might help us survive. A tortoise dropped by an eagle onto Aeschylus's bald head (which the bird mistook for a rock) is said to have killed the tragic poet. In a moment of mental crisis, John Stuart Mill idly turned to Wordsworth's poetry, only to discover in it "mental relief," the survival of his sanity. Sources of survival seem as random and as unexpected as the sources of our destruction. Some of us are faced with larger flying tortoises than others, but the issue is still the same: 44 survival. We http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Virgil's Georgics: A First-Century Foxfire?

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Appalachian Review , Volume 9 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Virgil's Georgics: A First-Century Foxfire? Parks Lanier Appalachian Heritage, Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1981, pp. 44-46 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1981.0025 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441753/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:21 GMT from JHU Libraries if ftï �«? OT VIRGIL'S GEORGICS: A FIRST-CENTURY FOXFIRE? Parks Lanier But thou — oh, why run back where fears destroy Peace? Why not climb the blissful mountain yonder, The cause and first beginning of all joy? Virgil to Dante (Inferno I, 76-78, trans. Sayers) Just as we do not always know what might kill us, neither do we always know what might help us survive. A tortoise dropped by an eagle onto Aeschylus's bald head (which the bird mistook for a rock) is said to have killed the tragic poet. In a moment of mental crisis, John Stuart Mill idly turned to Wordsworth's poetry, only to discover in it "mental relief," the survival of his sanity. Sources of survival seem as random and as unexpected as the sources of our destruction. Some of us are faced with larger flying tortoises than others, but the issue is still the same: 44 survival. We

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