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Bion
Bion (c.100 bc), a Greek pastoral poet who is reputed to have been born in Smyrna. His best-known work is a lament for Adonis, which was imitated by Ronsard and other continental poets and of which echoes can be found in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Keats's Hyperion is indebted to its picture of Adonis and it served as one of Shelley's models for Adonais. Bridges's Achilles in Scyros took some of its detail from Bion's idyll.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bion." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bion." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Bion.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bion." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Bion.html |
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Bion
Bion , fl. 2d cent.? BC, Greek bucolic poet, an imitator of Theocritus, b. Phlossa, near Smyrna. Only fragments of his work survive. The Lament for Adonis, attributed to him, was the model for Shelley's Adonais and was translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
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"Bion." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bion." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Bion.html "Bion." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Bion.html |
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