10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THEOCRITAN»
Discover the use of
Theocritan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Theocritan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver
So he imagines them on their walk - first in umbrageous Theocritan recesses,
where they Wander in gladness, and wind down, perchance To that still roaring
dell, ...o'erwooded, narrow, deep And only speckled by the mid-day sun.
Richard Gravil, Lucy Newlyn, Nicholas Roe, 1985
2
Poetry in the Song of Songs: A Literary Analysis
There is another possible extended Theocritan parallel with Idyll 3 where
Amaryllis is praised and erotically imaged in desire muted only by metaphor,
perhaps not as subtle as Song of Songs, where Amaryllis has a cave on the
mountain, also ...
3
Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature
'Both Renaissance and classical queer scholarship will be enriched by this book sparkling with provocative arguments and fresh analyses.
4
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
In the first,3 but not chronologically so, of his ten eclogues Virgil places himself at
the greatest Theocritan remove from the seat of power, with a conversation
between the two shepherds Tityrus and Melioboeus. One would expect these ...
Mary E. Barnard, Frederick A. De Armas, 2013
5
The Works of John Dryden
... Rapin,5 he shared the traditional belief in a Theocritan simplicity of ethos and
language, which is distinctly at odds with modern views.6 Although Dryden held
such views of Theocritus, his versions have less of that "incomparable sweetness
...
6
The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The ...
(For the history of the Theocritan ascription, see the edition and translation by
Gow listed in the List of abbreviations.) LUCRE CE The Argument Shakespeare
himself may have wished to advertise that this was indeed the 'graver labour'
which ...
William Shakespeare, John Roe, 2006
Like the "false surmise" of the flower-passage, the Virgilian or Theocritan echoes
in this poem call attention to the differences as well as the similarities between
their original contexts and the "real" situation thinly disguised under the veil of ...
William Bridges Hunter, 1983
8
The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in ...
Another, more contemporary source is Ronsard, who uses the Theocritan forester
-poet in his Hymne du treschrestien Roy de France, addressed to Henri II, who
also has so many virtues that the poet does not know where to begin.59 Ronsard
...
9
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Virgil developed the form after the Theocritan pattern, but his Latin Eclogues did
not contain dialect and were more refined and polished than the Greek original.
Unlike Virgil's smooth-talking shepherds, Theocritus did not shy away from ...
10
John Gay, Social Critic
Dr. Kerlin cites certain direct borrowings of Gay from various Theocritan Idyls in
The Shepherd's Week, Dione, and Ads and Galatea. He notes also that the
general influence of Theocritus's Fifteenth Idyl is apparent in most of the town
eclogues ...
