Virgil's Eclogues / translated by Len Krisak ; introduction by Gregson Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virgil.

Contributor:

Krisak, Len, 1948-

Standardized Title:

Bucolica. English & Latin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pastoral poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Country life--Rome--Poetry.

Country life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Eclogues

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Translator's preface

The Eclogues

Ecloga 1

Ecloga 1I

Ecloga 1II

Ecloga 1V

Ecloga V

Ecloga VI

Ecloga VII

Ecloga VIII

Ecloga IX

Ecloga X

Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-8122-2217-2

1-283-89666-4

0-8122-0536-7

OCLC:

794700630