Introduction. Virgil's schooldays ; Master, scholar, schoolbook -- The poet as schoolbook. 'I must read Virgil' ; 'Amo magistrum, I love the maister' ; The place of commentary and the works of Amor -- Pastoral and the painful schoolmaster. Echo, eclogue, dialogue ; 'The schoolemaister of Bacchus' ; 'Now thou art gone, now thou art gone' -- Placement and pedagogy in the Georgics. 'The rurall part of Virgil' ; Virgil's schoolroom ; 'Some boks have resistit, standeth stil' ; Print and pedagogy -- Forgetting epic. After Troy ; Virgil's wild goose ; Epic struggles ; 'A palmer with a rodde' -- Conclusion : 'Virgilius poeetarum doctissimus'.