How To Use Eclogue In A Sentence
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This same poetry as of a higher kind of eclogue characterizes the second of the great works undertaken by Raphael at the command of Leo
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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[Footnote 1: 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats.
Life Of Johnson
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It is long since it became no wonder to us that the greatest and in fact the only, real pastoral poet should have been a Sicilian; but it is a marvel indeed, that, having forgotten to bring his _Eclogues_ with us, we cannot, through the whole of Sicily, find a copy of Theocitus for sale, though there is a _Sicilian_ translation of him to be had at Palermo.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics.
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Myths about rural life are as old as the Greek eclogues and as modern as the L.L. Bean catalog.
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His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid (dactylic hexameter).
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To someone looking for resources to carry him through another round of suffering, the setting seems to foreclose all possibility of future piscatory eclogues.
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Eclogue, Boswell is simply a drunk and a puppy, and Wolcot identifies more explicitly with the impatient paternal authority of Johnson himself.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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Now in Virgil's early poem, the Sixth Eclogue, the speaker explains that the writing of pastoral poetry is the stuff that young poets do.
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Like his choice of the theme of ordering or improving a garden, Marvell's choice to draw on the tradition of the messianic eclogue needs to be seen in the changing context of who in his own time was claiming to be ushering in a new age.
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The Eclogues, four short poems, 319 lines in all, are strongly influenced by Virgil and Calpurnius.
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We get an idea of the kind of imperial authority which attached to Voltaire's judgment, from the eagerness with which Turgot sought, without revealing his name, an opinion from Ferney as to the worth of a translation with which he lightened the heavy burden of his intendance at Limoges, a translation of the "Eclogues" and fourth book of the "Æneid" into French metric verse.
Voltaire
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Wilcher reads George Daniel's Polylogia, a collection of eclogues, in terms of how they offer choices facing poets on the verge of war: either proclaim loyalty or profess silence.
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In the typical Golden Age eclogue, nature may be transformed but the spring is that which is celebrated and prolonged.
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The two books are both made up of two volumes, with a prologue, an epilogue, and an "eclogue" in between each volume.
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Silenus is finely painted in the sixth eclogue of Virgil.] 4 Every impartial reader must perceive and condemn the partiality of Julian against his uncle
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The pastoral eclogue in its simplest form is a dialogue between shepherds about love and death, which they engage in while tending their flocks in a rustic setting.
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English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
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Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
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This lack is, I believe, linked to the general neglect of the verse historia contained in the second eclogue.
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I think at least that we shall there recognize the author of those admirable verses which we meet with in his Eclogues: “Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error!” —
A Philosophical Dictionary
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To someone looking for resources to carry him through another round of suffering, the setting seems to foreclose all possibility of future piscatory eclogues.
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Being not ignorant of Greek, and finding nothing in the word "eclogue" of rural meaning, he supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own productions
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
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The supposed connection of the fourth Eclogue with the _Sibylline Books_, and through them, with the sacred wisdom of the Hebrews, of course placed Virgil on a different level from other heathens.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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The point of restoring Garcilaso's second eclogue to the center of the volume's conception, then, is to recover the historical setting for the transformation to a classical-heroic poetic voice in Books 3-4.
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As in the case of the story of Severo in Garcilaso's second eclogue, critics have generally found this section largely irrelevant and insignificant.
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The following weekend I burned the midnight oil translating one of the eclogues into rhymed couplets for the following week.
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On Monday the English professor taught ‘Lycidas’ and discussed pastoral elegy, Moschus, and why ‘pastures new’ enrolled Milton in Virgil's trajectory of eclogue, georgic, and epic, the classic career shape of the major poet.
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I have seen a learned work about a century old, now entirely forgotten, in which it is maintained that Virgil's fourth Eclogue is simply a genethliacon of Augustus; the arguments, which are ingenious but futile, are drawn from the poem of
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Thomas begins with recent neo-Kantian studies of the aesthetics of melancholy, and applies these ideas to a number of case studies, chiefly the bucolics of Virgil, the eclogues of Miklós Radnóti, and the utopian lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.
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That's not to be confused with an eclogue, which is a poetic pastoral dialogue.
SYNTAGMA
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Marino treats the conflation of the metamorphosed Daphne with the poet's instrument and song at length, perhaps in order to strengthen the connection with the eclogue that directly follows it in his collection, entitled ‘Siringa.’
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?