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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...I remember reading Virgil in college and being utterly moved by pastoral poetry....
...This rousing and wise work is as much part of the world’s heritage as Virgil’s Aeneid or Shakespeare’s sonnets....
...In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...LVMH has acquired a majority stake in menswear designer Virgil Abloh’s Off-White label and expanded his role at the luxury group in an attempt to attract younger customers....
...Richard Thomas, a Virgil scholar, argues that Dylan is the reincarnation of an ancient Greek bard. His guitar is just a cithara with fewer strings....
...Virgil Abloh is thinking about organic progression at Louis Vuitton. “I want to go upwards in trajectory, not flat....
...Adès, via Puccini, Berg and Virgil Thomson, to mention but a few, all wildly different stylistically but still within the same tradition....
...The book’s title tips a hat to Daniel Farson’s Soho in the Fifties, which chronicled, among others, Dylan Thomas. The great poet once remarked, deep in his cups, “Somebody’s boring me....
...When it was announced that Virgil Abloh, of cult streetwear label Off-White, was moving to take over at Louis Vuitton, the reaction from industry observers was mixed....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...Photographs: Pierre Toussaint; Thomas Pierre Schwab; Melodie Jeng/Getty Images; Jeff Spicer/Getty Images; Catwalking.com...
...Here, look — Capability Brown doing Claude, who was doing Virgil. Arcadia!”...
...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....
...Aeneid Book VI, by Seamus Heaney, Faber, RRP£14.99 / FSG, RRP$25 (May) A new translation of Virgil’s epic by the late Nobel Prize-winning poet....
...Last year’s winner of the €300,000 grant, and a year’s mentorship, was the Canadian-born, London-based womenswear designer Thomas Tait....
...by Seamus Heaney, Faber, RRP£14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$23 How fitting that the final published poem by Seamus Heaney, arriving three years after his death in 2013, should be a translation of Virgil...
...From £960; thewordtravels.com Hardy in Dorset HF Holidays runs a week-long tour through literary Dorset, exploring Thomas Hardy’s roots, as well as sites associated with Jane Austen....
...Six years ago, Christie’s devoted a sale to just 12 pieces of British furniture as a means of drawing attention to an unprecedented offering of Thomas Chippendale....
...This British charity was set up in 1965 by Sir John Smith, a wealthy banker and a descendant of the 19th-century travel pioneer Thomas Cook....
...Not for the first time, my Virgil explains the situation through analogy....
...There are some obstacles even Thomas Hampson cannot conquer. www.hampsong.com...
...“We want Romney to lose and the reason why is because we want to send a message to the Republican party,” says Thomas Conway, a grassroots supporter of Mr Paul, who says he will cast his ballot for the libertarian...
...The pastoral gardens inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues became so popular that one Sunday he counted 150 visitors....
...‘Australians: Origins to Eureka’, by Thomas Keneally, is published by Allen & Unwin, £30...
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