Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. The reader realizes that what Virgil did for his native place, Cather also was doing for Nebraska-putting it on the literary map.Willa Sibert Cather ( / ˈ k æ ð ər/ born Wilella Sibert Cather Decem – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. Cleric has explained to his class that Virgil meant by patria the region along the Mincio River where he had been born, not all of Italy. deducam Musas ", which has a parallel contemporary meaning. Cather also quotes another line from Virgil: " Primus ego in patriam mecum. The theme from Virgil supplies a leitmotif for this elegiac narrative. His destiny will take him East and turn him into a corporation lawyer. Jim too has left his native Black Hawk, Ántonia, and his grandparents.
Jim reflects on the dying Virgil at Brindisi, who must have remembered his youth in his native Mantua.
prima fugit " ("the best days are the first to flee"). His book is open to the passage: " Optima dies. As Jim studies the classics under Gaston Cleric, he develops a passion for Virgil, whose Georgics he is studying one night in his room. "Cather's thorough grounding in Latin gives depth to narrative of. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel set in World War I, One of Us (1922). For a brief time, she also taught Latin, algebra, and composition at a high school.Ĭather's best known works are her novels, O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), A Lost Lady (1923) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). Later, she was the managing editor for McClure's Magazine out of New York.
With the help of an older friend, William Ducker, an educated Englishman who worked as a clerk in a Red Cloud store, she read Vergil, Ovid, the Iliad, and the Odes of Anacreon before even entering college.īefore graduation, she already began working as a theater critic and columnist for the Nebraska State Journal and the Lincoln Courier. Willa Cather studied Latin and Greek both in high school in Red Cloud and later at the University of Nebraska. in English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1894
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