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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. 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. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogu

Country life in literature. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin -- History and criticism. --- Rome -- In literature. --- Virgil. Bucolica.

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"Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own making. This makes for a rich work of art and an object of legitimate aesthetic and imaginative engagement. Increased attention to the fictionality of Virgilian poetry also complicates and enriches the Eclogues' social and political dimensions. The book offers new interpretations of poems like Eclogues 5 and 9, which, according to traditional allegorical readings, concern Julius Caesar and the confiscation of lands under Octavian, respectively. It shows how the Eclogue world stands in a less stable relation to reality; these poems challenge readers at every turn to reimagine the relationship between fiction and the real"--

Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism --- Virgil. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin. --- History and criticism. --- Bucolica (Virgil). --- Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Virgil. - Bucolica

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Pastoral poetry, Latin --- Poésie pastorale latine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Virgil. --- History and criticism. --- Virgil --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism. --- Virgil - Bucolica

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Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. This world is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of Virgil's Roman audience, enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen sheltered social and cultural activities, temporary respite from the turbulence of public life, and a tamed landscape in which to play out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality. In Virgil's Garden Frederick Jones looks at the Eclogues in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the Eclogues and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Roman gardens.--Book Jacket.

Arcadia in literature. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- Country life in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Virgile, --- Virgil. --- Arcadia in literature --- Country life in literature --- History and criticism --- Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism

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