Los poetas latinos en The Waves de Virginia Woolf: autoridad y rechazo

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to show thoroughly the links between Virginia Woolf and Latin Culture. It starts with her personal education and the reading of classical Latin authors. This is based on her diaries, letters and the book collection kept in the Woolf’s library. Asecond approach is conformed by the depiction of the six characters in The Waves, which represent the different attitudes towards the classical world and which are present in the whole works of Virginia Woolf: the three men know, admire, and emulate the Latin poets but they also show an increasing refusal of academicism and misunderstood philology; on the other hand the three women are kept out from the Latin Language and they only evoke instinctively some evident «topoi», like Catullus’odi et amo.