This from Thomas Greene's " The Descent from Heaven" on reading Virgil...
"...he is...a poet of maturity rather than youth, because his work continues to educate as the understanding ripens. Fully to know him, one must know him long. If he teaches the schoolboy style, to the man he imparts nobility.
Nobility in Virgil is concerned with authenticity, labor, and humility: it involves above all a spirtiual generosity and an incapacity for triviality..."
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