Author: TheocritusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Theocritus
Author: TheocritusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Poems of Theocritus
Author: Anna RistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807897638
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and co
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose
Author: TheocritusPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This book contains ancient poetry by three bucolic poets; Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. It contains interesting idyls encompassing different themes with rich content of Ancient Greek philosophy, mythology, and history.
Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated Into English Verse
Author: John Van SicklePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801897998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This highly original work builds on two neglected facts about Virgil's Book of Bucolics: its popularity on the bawdy Roman stage and its impact as sequence poetry on readers and writers from the Classical world through the present day. The Bucolics profoundly influenced a wide range of canonical literary figures, from the contemporaneous Horace, Propertius, and Ovid through such successors as Calpurnius, Sannazaro, Marot, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and W. H. Auden. As performed, the work scored early success. John Van Sickle's artfully rendered translation, its stage cues, and the explanatory notes treat for the first time the book's ten short pieces as a thematic web. He pays close heed to themes that return, vary throughout the work, and develop as leitmotifs, inviting readers to trace the threads and ultimately to experience the last eclogue as a grand finale. Introductory notes identify cues for casting, dramatic gesture, and voice, pointing to topics that stirred the Roman crowd and satisfied powerful patrons. Back notes offer clues to the ambitious literary program implicit in the voices, plots, and themes. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how the Bucolics inaugurated Virgil's lifelong campaign to colonize for Rome the prestigious Greek genres of epic and tragedy -- winning contemporary acclaim and laying the groundwork for his poetic legend. Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists. -- A. R. Gurney, award-winning playwright and member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Theocritus Translated Into English Verse
Author: TheocritusThe Works of Virgil: Translated Into English Verse, by John Dryden
Author: VirgilTheocritus: A Selection
Author: TheocritusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521574204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.
Brill's Companion to Theocritus
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus
Author: R. C. TrevelyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107432197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Originally published in 1947, this book contains the English translation of twenty eight idylls and twenty three epigrams originally attributed to Theocritus. Trevelyan begins each idyll with a short synopsis and a brief introduction concerning the history behind each poem and its influence in later Greek and Latin poetry. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Theocritus or English Classical reception.
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
Author: Peter FrancePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0198183593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
"The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.