The hero, Aeneas, deliberately embodies the Roman ideals of loyalty ... More importantly, however, Virgil was regarded by Romans as their national poet. He was a man who spoke for their ...

Virgil is the guide of this journey, much as the Roman poet Virgil guided Dante into the Inferno. Simple moments of joy, hope, loss, and disappointment take on new meaning as Virgil navigates how ...

But Burgess is not Virgil any more than Joyce was Homer. His hero loses nothing by being a comic rather than a classic. He has also been given another dimension. If Ennis is not much of a Roman ...