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The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library. An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene.
The Design of Virgil's Bucolics. Duckworth. ISBN 1-85399-676-9. Van Sickle, John B. (2011). Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues in English Verse. Framed by Cues for Reading Out-Loud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9799-3. |
In Eclogue 6.4, Virgil himself is addressed by the god Apollo as "Tityrus"; he goes on to narrate the song of the god Silenus. [19] This Tityrus is linked to the Tityrus of Eclogue 1 by the phrase "I shall sing of the rustic Muse on a thin reed" (6.8), which recalls a similar phrase in Eclogue 1.2. [20]
Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature.
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