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Virgil's Eclogues

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's Eclogues. To get started finding Virgil's Eclogues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's Eclogues. To get started finding Virgil's Eclogues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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