Modern eclogues.(Critical Essay)

TriQuarterly | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

"Modern eclogue" may seem to be something of a contradiction in terms. But from their very beginnings, in the pastoral poems of Theocritus and Virgil, these dialogues between herdsmen (or, sometimes, monodies uttered by a herdsman) were conceived as modern--that is, as attempts to find a viable poetic form in specific historical and cultural circumstances, particularly in relation to prior, prestigious cultures and forms of poetry. Like other kinds of poetry by his Alexandrian contemporaries (third century B.C.E.) Theocritus's "idylls" are self-consciously belated, to use ...

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