Virgil's Eclogues

Virgil

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2010

Virgil's Eclogues

Virgil
With contributions by: Gregson Davis
Translated by: Len Krisak

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205367

Overview
Contents

About this book

This new translation by poet Len Krisak of Virgil's classic of pastoral verse captures both the meaning and meter of the original. The text features the English and original Latin on facing pages and an introduction by Gregson Davis.

Author / Editor information

Len Krisak has published several books of poetry and a complete translation of the odes of Horace. He has won several poetry awards, including the Richard Wilbur Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize, and the Robert Frost Prize. Gregson Davis is Professor of Classics at New York University.

Reviews

"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."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010

"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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Translator’s preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
The Eclogues
Ecloga 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Ecloga 1I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Ecloga 1II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Ecloga 1V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Ecloga V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Ecloga VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Ecloga VII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Ecloga VIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Ecloga IX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Ecloga X Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 112
Keywords: Classics; Ancient Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 6, 2011
ISBN: 9780812205367