Bucolica

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Athlone Press, 1974 - Poetry - 222 pages
What is ancient pastoral? The present work is designed to answer that question for students of ancient and modern poetry, for poets, and for the educated people. My essays are meant to depart from conventional discussion of the Bucolics and to share, even with the 'uninitiated', the fruits of a century of scholarship in Europe and America. Poetry is complicated stuff; the Bucolics may be the most difficult poetry to survive from the ancient world. -- Preface.

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INTRODUCTION I
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IDYLLS
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THE BUCOLICS OF VIRGIL text and translation
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