Vergil's Eclogues (9780807823477) Vergil, Virgil, Barbara Hughes Fowler
Product Details:
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (March 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807823473
ISBN-13: 978-0807823477
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture professional xml.pdf. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family's land, Vergil's appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay professional xml.pdf. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor professional xml.pdf.Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogues professional xml.pdf. An accomplished translator, Fowler renders the poet's words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original. In an introduction to the text, she compares the treatment of the pastoral form by Vergil and Theocritus, illuminating the ways in which Vergil borrowed from and built upon the earlier poet's work, and thereby moved the genre in a new direction.
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