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Seeing `My Antonia' in context.(Chicago Tribune)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20021009
Author:Reardon, Patrick T.

CHICAGO _ Among its many themes, Willa Cather's "My Antonia" examines the roles that nature and memory play in human life. As Cather was well aware, these were subjects that had long been pondered by writers. And, in his DePaul University course, centered on "My Antonia," Jonathan Gross has his students reading some of those earlier writers to see the context in which Cather wrote. Here are excerpts:

"Optima dies . . . prima fugit." ("The best days are the first to flee.")

_ Virgil, "Georgics,"1st Century B.C., used as the epigraph for "My Antonia"

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