A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor First finding success with fairy-stories

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A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor First finding success with fairy-storiesBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his