Poetry in the Virgilian, Tennysonian, or Lowellian sense it certainly is not. |
But whereas the Virgilian quote dissolves on inspection, Kipling's choice, from the 44th chapter of Ecclesiasticus, becomes more profound as its context becomes clearer. |
It must be admitted, however, that the poet's uncouth diction is anything but Virgilian. |
It struck me as the Virgilian lots formerly struck the superstitious. |
Dobell's mouth was ever full of very pretty Latinity, for the most part Virgilian. |
In his version of the rich Virgilian measure they are especially out of place. |