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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...In the Aeneid, Virgil’s nomadic heroine Camilla was strapped by her father to a spear and thrown, while a baby, across a river to escape pursuers....
...I remember reading Virgil in college and being utterly moved by pastoral poetry....
...“I think Virgil Abloh is the modern version of that, jumping from one medium to another, and in a similar way, I want everything I make to be special....
...In the eighth book he encounters the river god Tiber near Rome. In the garden’s grotto there is a statue of a river god, sometimes identified as Tiber....
...“I just reached out to her,” said Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White, at the Pitti Palace in Florence....
...In 2010 Singolda met his wife Victoria Monsul, who grew up in New Jersey and runs the flower start-up Iris and Virgil....
...This was always going to be problematic, as he attempted to speak for the common Englishman by quoting Virgil....
...Its landscape tradition goes back at least to Horace and Virgil, who tended to regard the pastoral and rural as natural and wilderness as supernatural and monstrous....
...There’s a famous ferry journey in Dante’s “Inferno” – across the River Acheron to the first circle of hell....
...Dishes are reminiscent of the River Café at its peak but also draw inspiration from the Middle East and Scandinavia....
...I have many regrets from my school days but the years I spent studying Virgil’s Aeneid are not among them....
...Smith is popping stories into my head – the poetry of Virgil, the “imperial anarchs” described by Byron – then points out Ithaca in the far distance....
...Matisse’s “Bathers by the River” smuggles pastoral nudes into an angular modern landscape. Even in paradise, bliss is tough to come by....
...The bees of Duffy’s title – which allude to Virgil’s bees, Yeats’ “bee-loud glade”, and Ariel’s song in The Tempest – recur throughout the book, announcing the poet’s devotion to her vocation and her mastery...
...valley where Virgil set the story, superimposed on a dense tangle of pencil....
...Could there be simulated crashes, what Virgil calls “terque fragor”, to remind visitors what Orpheus lost? Wilkie tactfully suggested it was time for us to climb out....
...He engineered an introduction to composer and critic Virgil Thomson, who tutored him in music composition and helped him get a job as a critic at the New York Herald Tribune....
...Readers of Heaney’s poems since his first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966), have grown familiar with his landmarks and place-names: the Moyola River, Toome, Anahorish, Derrygarve, the bogs, fields, wells...
...Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel, Canongate RRP£15.99 Imaginative and innovative novel about the Holocaust, including taxidermists, talking donkeys and the best ever description of a pear....
...In the speech he quoted an English translation of Virgil, warning that “like the Roman” he saw the “river Tiber foaming with much blood”....
...The river is Virgil’s Mincius. An outlet of Lake Garda, it joins the Po 73km downstream....
...From then on, Poussin would plunder the ancient poets – Ovid, Virgil, Horace – for inspiration....
...Tory attitude to the countryside as old-fashioned and feudalistic, suggesting that with their own, Whiggish prescription for the landscape garden they were honouring the ancient precedents of Pliny and Virgil...
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