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Book The Eclogues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 3986777873
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book The Eclogues written by Virgil and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Eclogues and Georgics

Download or read book Eclogues and Georgics written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil s Eclogues

Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues written by Virgil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Literal Translation of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil

Download or read book A Literal Translation of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil s Eclogues Translated Into English by W  L isle   Gent

Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues Translated Into English by W L isle Gent written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1628 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil s Eclogues

Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues written by Virgil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 epic in the time in which it was created.

Book The Eclogues of Virgil Translated Into English Verse

Download or read book The Eclogues of Virgil Translated Into English Verse written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL TRANSLATED

Download or read book ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL TRANSLATED written by Virgil and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Translation of Virgil s Eclogues into rhythmic prose  with notes based on those in Professor Conington s edition  By R  M  Millington

Download or read book A Translation of Virgil s Eclogues into rhythmic prose with notes based on those in Professor Conington s edition By R M Millington written by Publius Vergilius Maro and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil   Translated Into Verse   By J  B  Rose

Download or read book The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil Translated Into Verse By J B Rose written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eclogues and the Georgics

Download or read book The Eclogues and the Georgics written by Virgil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1944, this book contains English metrical translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics. The translations were produced by the British poet R. C. Trevelyan (1872-1951). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Virgil and translation.

Book Virgil s Eclogues   Translated Into English Verse by C  S  Calverley

Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues Translated Into English Verse by C S Calverley written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Francis Cairns Publications
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book written by Virgil and published by Francis Cairns Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin text with a verse translation and brief notes.

Book The Georgics and the Eclogues

Download or read book The Georgics and the Eclogues written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Georgics of Virgil

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  • Author : David Ferry
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 1466895063
  • Pages : 135 pages

Download or read book The Georgics of Virgil written by David Ferry and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult--and beautiful--circumstances, and in the context of all we share in nature. The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes the form of teaching about this care: the tilling of fields, the tending of vines, the raising of the cattle and the bees. There's joy in the detail of Virgil's descriptions of work well done, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the very life of things, and passionate commiseration too, because of the vulnerability of men and all other creatures, with all they have to contend with: storms, and plagues, and wars, and all mischance. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing." This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Georgics.