Virgil's Eclogues Translated Into English by W. L[isle], Gent
Author : Virgil
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Page : 218 pages
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Author : Virgil
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Page : 218 pages
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Author : Virgil
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Release : 1908
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Author : Virgil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0812205367
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3986777873
The Eclogues Virgil - Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of GilgameshThe Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, which were influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do. "Song replying to song replying to song," touchingly comic, poignantly sad, sublimely joyful, the various music that these shepherds make echoes in scenes of repose and harmony, and of hardship and trouble in work and love.Available in ebook for the first time, this English-only edition of The Eclogues of Virgil includes concise, informative notes and an introduction that describes the fundamental role of this deeply original book in the pastoral tradition.
Author : Virgil
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Page : 92 pages
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Release : 1868
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Author : Virgil
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Page : 138 pages
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Release : 1873
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Author : William Carew Hazlitt
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1869
Category : English literature
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Author : William Carew Hazlitt
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Virgil
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Page : 191 pages
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Release : 1628
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