Eclogues


Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

Eclogues

short pieces by Roman poet Vergil with pastoral setting. [Rom. Lit.: Benét, 1053]
See: Pastoralism
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The theme of revenge pervades the West Indian Eclogues, but it plays a central role in the fourth and final eclogue.
Droit du seigneur, slavery, and nation in the poetry of Edward Rushton
Fraunce could have found inspiration in Ramus's anthology of the Pleiade poets in the French Dialectique (1555), or in his logico-rhetorical commentary on Virgil's ten eclogues in the Bucolica, praelectionibus exposita (1555).
Ramist Dialectic, Poetic Examples, and the Uses of Pastoral in Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic
The third Eclogue could easily be related to the concept of a modern-day 'rap-battle'.
A translation of Vergil's third Eclogue into Afrikaans
While the poem does remain somewhat derivative of the Marotic Gallic style in both form and content, Sceve's innovations with regard to certain basic literary elements as well as his negotiation of bucolic models from the Latin tradition (specifically, Sannazaro) help separate his pastoral from Marot's first two eclogues and align it more germanely with his own (Petrarchan) poetic enterprise in 1536, thus making the case that Arion merits careful reconsideration.
Bucolic influence: Marot's Gallic pastoral and Maurice Sceve's Arion
We see, however, that the eclogue's tone and focus change with the arrival of the second shepherd, Mateo.
Juan del Encinas egloga representada en la noche de la natividad: gift giving in search of recognition and recompense
(2) Later, when discussing Virgil's reception in Renaissance literature, Smith identifies obvious candidates such as Sannazaro and Vida, but omits another important Renaissance poet, Baptista Mantuanus, who composed his own Eclogues and Christian epyllia, the Parthenices, in imitation of Virgil.
R. Alden Smith: Virgil. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Eclogues II, VII and the Helicon--The Collage Cycle
Reading the Helicon collage: hidden stories in the collected fragments
Studies in the structure of the Eclogues have been periodically popular, but since the publication of Van Sickle's The Design of Vergil's 'Bucolics' in 1978, very little has been published on the subject.
The structure of Vergil's Eclogues
Pushkin is recalling the Eclogues, particularly Virgil's trope of the responsive landscape (cf.
Pushkin's "To Ovid" and Virgil's Georgics
This article nuances Ross's broad claim for Linus's metapoetic function in the Eclogues to offer the specific suggestion that Vergil discovered in Linus a character whose diverse literary genealogy permitted him to explore the complex interplay of writing and singing in poetic composition.
Linus as a figure for pastoral poetics in Vergil's Eclogues
NOTE: The last two lines of this poem come from Virgil's Eclogue
Living in the World

Encyclopedia browser ?
Full browser ?