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How to use eclogues in a sentence

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The following weekend I burned the midnight oil translating one of the eclogues into rhymed couplets for the following week.
Myths about rural life are as old as the Greek eclogues and as modern as the L.L. Bean catalog.
English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
To someone looking for resources to carry him through another round of suffering, the setting seems to foreclose all possibility of future piscatory eclogues.
The Eclogues, four short poems, 319 lines in all, are strongly influenced by Virgil and Calpurnius.
The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires.
His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid.
Although in most cases no title was given, one can assume the Aeneid followed by the Eclogues and Georgics.
Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.
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.
It emulates Virgil's Eclogues of the first century BCE and the Eclogues of Mantuan by Baptista Mantuanus, a late medieval, early renaissance poet.
Examples from Classical Literature
The whole ten eclogues did not find a translator till 1656, when Thomas Harvey published a version in decasyllabic couplets.
Theocritus and Virgil have furnished the archetypes for our eclogues and pastorals.
We have prepared two eclogues, one by the famous poet Garcilasso, the other by the most excellent Camoens, in its own Portuguese tongue, but we have not as yet acted them.
The Eclogues, sometimes called also Bucolica or Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poems.
Then, most gravely and admirably, he began to construe the Eclogues of Virgil.
Their argument was as unlike one of the debates in Vergil's Eclogues as possible.
Vergil, wrote his Eclogues and Georgics as pastoral poems, revisiting the mythical Golden Age and in anticipation of a new Golden Age to come.
Every naturalist concealed within him a lover of idylls or Eclogues.
Eclogues he called them, and meant to have published them by subscription.
His Eclogues are somewhat too long, if we compare them with the ancients.
So far the Eclogues have all been in Sannazzaro's terza rima.
Representative texts in this formal tradition would certainly include the two foundational works in Greek and Latin, Theocritus's Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues.
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