The EcloguesHeritage Press, 1960 - 96 sider The 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. - Amazon. |
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Side xviii
... Georgics . His early sympathy for Epicureanism is indicated by a number of passages in his works ; a line like Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas , " Blessed the man who availed to discern the causes of things " ( Georgics 2.489 ) ...
... Georgics . His early sympathy for Epicureanism is indicated by a number of passages in his works ; a line like Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas , " Blessed the man who availed to discern the causes of things " ( Georgics 2.489 ) ...
Side xix
... Georgics , whose object was to proclaim the special blessedness of Italy and to promote a return to agriculture and the traditional ways of Rome . And it was at Mæcenas ' suggestion that he wrote the Æneid , whose object was to show ...
... Georgics , whose object was to proclaim the special blessedness of Italy and to promote a return to agriculture and the traditional ways of Rome . And it was at Mæcenas ' suggestion that he wrote the Æneid , whose object was to show ...
Side xxvii
... Georgics , that he chose to render . His gifts , as recorded in the entry under his name in the Dictionary of National Biography , included " unique powers of imitation " which made him " perhaps the best parodist in the language ...
... Georgics , that he chose to render . His gifts , as recorded in the entry under his name in the Dictionary of National Biography , included " unique powers of imitation " which made him " perhaps the best parodist in the language ...
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Æneid Alexandrian ALPHESIBUS Amaryllis amœbæan Amyntas Apollo apples Argonautica aught Begin bring Daphnis Cæsar's Callimachus Calverley Cisalpine Gaul city home copses Corydon crags DAMCETAS Damon DAMOTAS Demeter earth Eclogue Epicureanism fair farm field fling flocks flowers flute Galatea Gallus Georgics gifts goat governor of Cisalpine grass Greek green herd hexameter hills Homeric Hymns hyacinth idylls imitation kids kine lambs LYCIDAS Lycoris Mæcenas maid Mantua masquerade MELIBUS MENALCAS Messianic Eclogue meter milk mimes MOPSUS MORIS muse myrtles ne'er neath numbered Nymphs o'er oaks Octavian PALÆMON Parthian Parthini pastoral eclogue Phoebus Phyllis pipe poem poet poetry Pollio reed religious represent Virgil Rome rustic sang scarce seas shadow shalt sheep shepherds sing song of Arcady spring star swains sweet teeming thee Theocritean model Theocritus thine thou THYRSIS Tityrus translation Twas Unbid Varus verse vine Virgil Virgil's Eclogues wild wolves wondering woods wwwwwww