A Study of the Periviglium Veneris (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Study of the Periviglium Veneris The Pervigilium Veneris, a remarkable poem of unknown authorship and uncertain age, suffered from undue neglect until comparatively recent years. Writers on Latin Literature had mostly failed to appreciate or even understand it. According to Teuffel "The diction is rhetorical and often almost sentimental, " while Cruttwell wrote "It...is well worth reading from the melancholy despondency that breathes through its quiet inspiration...The refrain...may be called the 'last word' of expiring epicureanism." Simcox, who appreciated the poetry, deplored the vagueness of expression as unpardonable: but he relied on a very inferior text, the only one available at the time when he wrote. Finally Schanz, in Müller's Handbuch, found that it did not deserve the admiration which it formerly excited, "it lacks repose, harmony and clearness, and the style is inclined to be turgid and affected." But after all 'repose' is hardly to be expected of an emotional poem, and lucidity must sometimes be sacrificed to poetical exaggeration, while 'fanciful' gives a truer impression than 'affected.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.