The following weekend I burned the midnight oil translating one of the eclogues into rhymed couplets for the following week. |
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Myths about rural life are as old as the Greek eclogues and as modern as the L.L. Bean catalog. |
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English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney. |
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To someone looking for resources to carry him through another round of suffering, the setting seems to foreclose all possibility of future piscatory eclogues. |
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The Eclogues, four short poems, 319 lines in all, are strongly influenced by Virgil and Calpurnius. |
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The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires. |
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His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid. |
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Although in most cases no title was given, one can assume the Aeneid followed by the Eclogues and Georgics. |
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Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome. |
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From Homer onward epic was an unsigned genre, and such tradition was respected by Virgil, who signed only the Georgics, but not the Eclogues, nor the Aeneid. |
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It emulates Virgil's Eclogues of the first century BCE and the Eclogues of Mantuan by Baptista Mantuanus, a late medieval, early renaissance poet. |
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