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Dear David -- Thank-you for your kindly letter informing me of your promotion to tenure. ECU can count itself blessed. I see where you are reading Ziolkowski's and Putnam's vol. on Virgilian tradition. I once met each of the editors, on rather different occasions, and in the latter day Putnam asked me a question, years ago, by e-mail, about something or other Virgilian. The volume is costly--in lieu of actually seeing it, can you tell me if it has much of anything at all on Girolamo's Vida's Christiad (Nicodeumus, the marshalling of heaven by Michael, etc.), and indeed, further, on Milton's specific debts to such figures of that epic production, or are these matters quite outside the first 1500 yrs. protocol? In any case, congratulations on joining the tenured at ECU. With best wishes, Jim N. On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:36:47 -0400 David Wilson-Okamura <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Steven J. Willett wrote: >> Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian Tradition. The >> First Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven & London: Yale University >> Press, 2008. Pp. xl, 1,082. ISBN 978-0-300-10822-4. $100.00 (hb). >> > I have been actively working on this material since the mid-90s. I >received a contributor's copy this spring, but didn't have time to study it >page by page until May, after Kalamazoo. Since then, I have learned much >from it about a field that I thought I knew thoroughly, and been saved by >it from several errors of long standing (at least, they were longstanding >in me). The selections are generous, and the introductions are excellent, >with excellent bibliography. Six weeks later, I am still digesting. > > > -- > Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask] > English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c > East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet [log in to unmask] James Nohrnberg Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219 Univ. of Virginia P.O Box 400121 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121