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    when each eclogue in poems 1–9 is added to its pair: eclogues 2 + 8 = 3 + 7 = 181 lines, while eclogues 1 + 9 = 4 + 6 = 150/149 lines; 2 + 10 also = 150 lines...
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  • by Mantuan's eclogues, as well as by Virgil and Theocritus, when he composed the Shepheardes Calendar (1579), a series of twelve eclogues, one for each...
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    Virgil (section Eclogues)
    composition of the Eclogues. This is now thought to be an unsupported inference from interpretations of the Eclogues. In Eclogues 1 and 9, Virgil indeed...
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    hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39–38 BC, although this is controversial. The Eclogues (from...
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    Eclogue 1 (Ecloga I) is a bucolic poem by the Latin poet Virgil from his Eclogues. In this poem, which is in the form of a dialogue, Virgil contrasts...
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    written in the dactylic hexameter metre. Eclogues 2 and 3 are thought to be the earliest of Virgil's Eclogues to be written, and so the poem dates to about...
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  • Eclogue 7 (Ecloga VII; Bucolica VII) is a poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his book of ten pastoral poems known as the Eclogues. It is an amoebaean...
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  • of the eclogues of Calpurnius and Nemesianus was established by Haupt. There is no doubt that Calpurnius's eclogues post-date Virgil's eclogues, as Calpurnius...
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    Eclogue 9 (Ecloga IX; Bucolica IX) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his series of ten poems known as the Eclogues. This eclogue describes...
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    surviving poetry, Eclogue 3 is composed in dactylic hexameters. Eclogues 2 and 3 are thought to be the earliest of Virgil's Eclogues to be written, and...
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  • Eclogue 10 (Ecloga X; Bucolica X) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the last of his book of ten poems known as the Eclogues written approximately...
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  • Eclogue 5 (Ecloga V; Bucolica V) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his book of ten poems known as the Eclogues. In form, this is an expansion...
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    Virgil's Eclogues, Corydon is a goatherd who loves a boy called Alexis. Corydon is the name of a character that features heavily in the Eclogues of Calpurnius...
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    Virgil's Sixth Eclogue". Vergilius (1959–). 39: 25–29. JSTOR 41592488. Putnam, Michael C. J. (1970). Virgil's Pastoral Art: Studies in the Eclogues. Princeton...
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  • providing a middle frame around Eclogue IV, corresponding to Virgil's Eclogues III and VII. Poems with dialogue (Eclogues II, IV and VI) are interwoven...
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  • Eclogues (Latin: Eclogae Nemesiani) is a book of four Latin poems, attributed to Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (late 3rd century AD). Eclogue I...
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    Translation of the Eclogues). Great Britain: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 7–17. Skutsch, O. (1969). "Symmetry and Sense in the Eclogues". Harvard Studies in...
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    The Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli) was a Latin verse dialogue, which became a standard school text of the Middle Ages. Scholarship generally dates...
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  • in which case, they clearly pre-date the Eclogues of Nemesianus and may, or may not, pre-date the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus. However, Stover argues...
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  • The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of...
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    series of "town eclogues"; at the same period William Diaper had substituted marine divinities for shepherds in his Nereides: or Sea-Eclogues (1712). Collins'...
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    Department of state. p. 34. P. Vergilius Maro, Eclogues, J. B. Greenough, Ed. Virgil; Mackail, J. W. (1910). The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil. London: Longmans...
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    the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals at the commencement of his career. However, Spenser's models were rather the Renaissance eclogues of...
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    Eclogue 4, also known as the Fourth Eclogue, is the name of a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. Part of his first major work, the Eclogues, the piece...
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  • The Eclogues are two Latin hexameter poems in the bucolic style by Dante Alighieri, named after Virgil's Eclogues. The two poems are the 68-verse Vidimus...
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  • to Nemesianus, although this attribution is considered doubtful. Four eclogues, formerly attributed to Titus Calpurnius Siculus, are now generally considered...
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    principally upon Virgil's Eclogues, include Calpurnius Siculus and Nemesianus and the author(s) of the Einsiedeln Eclogues. Italian poets revived the...
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    Stobaeus (section Eclogues)
    manuscript tradition, and the first volume became known as the Extracts (also Eclogues) and the second volume became known as the Anthology (also Florilegium)...
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  • The piscatorial eclogue is a genre of poetry from Renaissance Italy. A variation on the pastoral, it substitutes fishermen at sea for shepherds in the...
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    The Georgics is considered Virgil's second major work, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources...
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