Bucoliche

Our familiar Virgil tempers the grandeur of the epic with loss, and strikes ambiguous moods in the midst of war glory; but, the lesser known Virgil floods the senses with a rustic imagination drunk on the colourful singing of country air through mountains and over streams. Here the world turns over, Leggi tutto

U eklogama glavni lik je prostor – irealno međuprožimanje čoveka i prirode. Čovek ekloge nije homo faber, onaj koji svetu pristupa sa umećem, već je homo pastor – bukolikos. U takvom svetu nema vremena – ni cikličnog ni linearnog – vremenska ravan je zapravo negde iza, ali ne i vremensko proticanje. Leggi tutto

Diez poemas bucólicos de Virgilio, su primera gran obra. Se supone que se trata de pastores poetas que cantan sobre cabras, árboles, flores y así, pero no es del todo así. Son poemas escritos desde la ciudad que hablan acerca del campo. Más todavía, el tema central no es campestre, sino erótico, lo Leggi tutto

I read this, mistakenly, because of Willa Cather; it wasn't until I brought it all the way home from the library that I checked again and saw that she was quoting not the Eclogues but the Georgics in My Ántonia . I read it anyway. The Eclogues (c.39 BC)—also and more descriptively known as the Bu Leggi tutto

The Eclogues holds a special place for me. The First Eclogue was the first piece of nonepic Classical poetry that I ever read, and I immediately loved it. The opening lines of the first Eclogue are up there as some of my favorite lines of poetry. Its beautiful when read in both English and Latin. Fo Leggi tutto

Un giorno Dafni sedeva all'ombra di un'elce frusciante,e Coridone e Tirsi vi avevano radunato greggi,Tirsi le pecore, Coridone le capre colme di latte;ambedue nel fiore dell'età, esperti nelle arti di Arcadia,pari nel canto, e pronti ugualmente a ribattere:là mi s'era sperduto proprio il caprone del Leggi tutto

Have you ever felt grass as soft as fleece? Or heard the murmur of the runnel over soft pebbles? Or heard the soft air whisper a soft tune? Perhaps your life has been too hard. In that case, you must escape to Arcadia and meet the creatures of the wood! Pan, Silenus, and Bacchus are there! Nymphs, D Leggi tutto

These are rich poems about the pastoral life. Virgil's shepherds recline in lush countryside at the foot of the Alps and pass the time in song contests, storytelling, and lovemaking. It's escapist, yes, but Virgil also weaves in a recurring but subtle melancholy theme of displacement - explicit in t Leggi tutto

I'm a Latin teacher, so I figured I had to read this book start to finish! I think I kind of have to like it because it's written by the same poet who wrote The Aeneid, but to be honest I was pretty disappointed. It's beautiful writing and I definitely underlined some areas just because the poetry w Leggi tutto

Ten pastoral poems without a hint of the epic or heroic, just the small dramas of life on a human scale: lost farms, lost loves, friendship and rivalry, and the trials of living on the margins. A quietly eloquent work, The Eclogues is the world’s first concept album, a collection of lyrics that wrou Leggi tutto