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​Epic Ending

From the April 2016 Print Edition

Inside Paradise Lostby david quintprinceton, 344 pages, $35Early on in Inside Paradise Lost, David Quint writes a sentence that is at once simple and, for this reader, simply terrifying: “The series begins with Virgil’s own submerged reference to Lucretius.” The series Quint has in mind is the . . . . Continue Reading »