...This chapter focuses on depictions of Pasiphae in the Eclogues and Ars Amatoria. In much Latin poetry, Pasiphae tends to be given a brief, frowning reference, a figure who represents in short-hand the worst excesses of female passion and deceitfulness. Yet despite...

...This chapter argues that poets use discursive similarities in the representation of past and present to emphasize the real discontinuities. In this sense, Eclogue 4, in the way that it borrows signal elements of the prophecies that conclude Catullus 64, historicizes that poem...

... and allusions to Virgil's own earliest extant poems (the eclogues) to recreate in prose the tension found throughout Virgil's poetry between the themes of the pastoral and those of epic. Thoreau also thereby allies his own literary career to the progression first followed by Virgil, from pastoral to georgic...

... and circumstances under which a genre ceases to be viable. It describes Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, Virgil's Eclogues, and The Idylls of Theocritus. References Alpers, P. ( 1979 ). Singer of the Eclogues: A Study of Virgilian Pastoral...

...This chapter engages in a close reading of Edward Rushton’s key antislavery collection of West Indian Eclogues (1787) – a challenging experiment in the long-standing pastoral form, which by the 1780s had developed a distinctive tradition of realistic concern, resulting...

... in his translations from the Eclogues, his translation of Aeneid 1-6 lacked any substantial political commentary beyond his sympathetic commemoration of Charles I’s execution. A coda to the chapter discusses Sir William Kingsmill, who like Harrington produced...

...English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400–1550. Matthew Day, Oxford University Press. © Matthew Day 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192871138.003.0004 Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive study of Wynkyn de Worde’s four editions of Virgil’s Eclogues...

... eclogues Virgil Eden Golden Age Giovanni del Virgilio The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our parents by regaining to know God aright. (John Milton, Of Education) In the opening remarks of his short treatise Of Education, John Milton highlights...

... composing but might attempt in the future, the persona paints a portrait of himself as a poet in mid-career. This strategy of self-presentation has greatly influenced later readings of Vergil's career, according to which the Georgics, situated between the Eclogues...

... (‘freedom’, ‘free speech’) makes way for a very different conception of libertas grounded in the security of high-level patronage and the leisure afforded by social stability. Horace Sermones 1, Virgil’s Eclogues, Propertius Book 1, and Tibullus Book 1...

... Eclogues (written gracili ... hibisco, ‘with a delicate mallowreed’: 10. 71) and advances through didactic epos (the Georgics) to graduate in the Aeneid, the height of honour, the consulship of poetry. Ars Poetica Eclogues...

...-standing lyrics but also on songs and other short poems contained in plays and romances or in singing-matches from within longer eclogues; George Chapman was saying nothing unfamiliar when he described Fletcher’s Faithful Shepherdess (1609) as ‘a Pastoral, being both a poem and a play...

...“Larger the shadows” takes a close look at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of Virgil’s “Eclogue 1” (1870), a poem that reflected his experience of change, both in himself and around him in his physical environment. A relentless foreignizer as a translator, Longfellow nevertheless found...

... collection of West Indian Eclogues (1787). The crucial impact on public opinion of the Zong case (1783) is discussed as a possible catalyst for this major change in Rushton’s politics and writing. The wilful murder of 132 human beings who were thrown overboard alive resulted...

...The Virgilian centos, in which authors reconnect discrete lines taken from Virgil's Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid to create new poems, are some of the most striking texts to survive from antiquity. This book examines the twelve mythological...

...This chapter argues that early modern pedagogical authorities and commentators find in Virgil's Eclogues several close engagements with the vocabulary of teaching. These authorities and commentators, in turn, wring from Virgil's words a series of complex statements about repetition...

... treatises. Actors and orators share the art of voice and gesture – called actio for oratory. The Eclogues were written for preservation in the libraries as the founding example of Roman bucolic, but were composed at the same time for the theatre. theatre games Aristotle...

...This paper is a stimulating account of the alienation effect apparently achieved by topographical dislocation in the Eclogues, and of the political symbolism of agriculture in the Georgics. Vergil's model in the Eclogues is the Greek poet...

...Irish versions of the Eclogues and Georgics serve as another salient example of how culture and nationhood define themselves through Virgil. This chapter explores how Virgil has provided a way of navigating Irish identity and looks at the language choices in Irish...

.... The poet never allows us either to rest confident in the morality of empire or to ignore its manifold benefits, not least of which is the poetic art itself. Characterizing “Jupiter in Virgil” is as difficult as characterizing Virgil himself. The portrayal of the god in the Eclogues...