{"product_id":"virgils-eclogues-paperback-softback-9780812222173","title":"Virgil's Eclogues (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812222173","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVirgil's Eclogues\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVirgil (Author), Len Krisak (Translated by), Gregson Davis (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812222173\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is by far the most readable and accessible version of the Eclogues I know, and the most engaging as a poem in its own right. . . . Outstanding.\" (\u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \"The translations in this volume succeed in achieving the all-important musicality of effect, while sustaining a delicate balance between the pedestrian and the formal, the mundane and the sublime-the style that [Virgil's] fellow poet Horace famously characterized as 'molle atque facetum' ('refined and witty').\" (from the Introduction, by Gregson Davis)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, he wrote two other collections of poems: the \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBucolics\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e The \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e and culminates in the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry.\u003cbr\u003e Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, \u003ci\u003eVirgil's Eclogues\u003c\/i\u003e also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Gregson Davis\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Preface\u003cbr\u003e The Eclogues\u003cbr\u003e i\u003cbr\u003e ii\u003cbr\u003e iii\u003cbr\u003e iv\u003cbr\u003e v\u003cbr\u003e vi\u003cbr\u003e vii\u003cbr\u003e viii\u003cbr\u003e ix\u003cbr\u003e x\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735372558616,"sku":"9780812222173","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/virgils-eclogues-paperback-softback-9780812222173","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}