Eclogues
Title | Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | Boccaccio Giovanni |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0429615167 |
Originally translated and published in 1987, this volume contains a full text and translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Eclogues, alongside textual and historical notes including an explanation of Boccaccio's life, his artistic achievement, and the sources and influences.
Vergil’s Eclogues
Title | Vergil’s Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | George C. Paraskeviotis |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2019-11-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527542793 |
Between 42 and 39 BC, Vergil composed the first Latin pastoral collection, entitled Eclogues, and consisting of ten poems in the form in which it has come down to us. Vergil’s Eclogues represent the introduction of a new genre, the pastoral, to Latin literature, and recall the Hellenistic poet Theocritus who invented this genre. The fact that the Roman author inserts into the text elements from other Greek and Latin texts modifying them through innovations and changes (constitutes an attractive field of research. This book shows that Vergil’s dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not only typical of the way in which Latin literature was written in the 1st century BC; rather, it is also a dynamic literary method used to affect and define the character of each Eclogue.
The Eclogues of Virgil
Title | The Eclogues of Virgil PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466894911 |
Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of Gilgamesh 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. 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.
The Latin Eclogues
Title | The Latin Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2010-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0801897491 |
Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron, but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. David R. Slavitt’s English translation makes these important pieces accessible to a new audience of readers. Elegant and engaging, these pastoral poems address the great issues of Boccaccio’s Italy, including the political and military intrigues of the day. Boccaccio modeled his poems on Petrarch’s eclogues and, before him, those of Virgil and Theocritus. Slavitt’s impeccable translations are highly readable, while his editorial interjections both elucidate the poet’s intended meaning and frame the poems for the reader. These charming works offer wonderful insight into daily life in Renaissance Italy. A prolific and award-winning translator, Slavitt turns the Eclogues into vibrant modern English, capturing not only the words of Boccaccio but the flavor of the original language. The availability of The Latin Eclogues in English is a major contribution to the study of the literature and history of the Italian Renaissance.
A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues
Title | A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell Vernon Clausen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780198149163 |
Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem, as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole.
The Georgics and the Eclogues
Title | The Georgics and the Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781483703411 |
The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil, containing ten pieces, each called not an idyll, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. The Georgics is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, with the subject of agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, The Eclogues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid.
Eclogues and Georgics
Title | Eclogues and Georgics PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Pastoral poetry, Latin |
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