8.0395 Q: Myrtles (1/14)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 15 Mar 1995 22:34:58 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0395. Wednesday, 15 Mar 1995.
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 22:02:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Calkins <eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Myrtles: Virgil
Proust wrote:
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Ce qui me console c'est que Baudelaire a fait les poemes en prose et les
Fleurs du Mal sur les memes sujets, que Girard de Nerval a fait en une
piece de vers et dans un passage de Sylvie le meme chateau Louis XIII, le
myrte de Virgile etc. (65)
I am consoled that Baudelaire wrote the poemes en prose and the Fleurs du
Mal on the same subject, that Girard de Nerval wrote about the same Louis
XIII chateau in verse and in a passage in Sylvie, Virgil's myrtle, etc.
Does anyone have any idea as to which two (or more) myrtles in two (or
more) different generic forms in Virgil Proust is alluding to? Thank
much--M.C.