Reviews for The Eclogues

The average rating for The Eclogues based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-26 00:00:00 Ellick Erickson Our familiar Virgil tempers the grandeur of the epic with loss, and strikes ambiguous moods in the midst of war glory; but, the lesser known Virgil floods the senses with a rustic imagination drunk on the colourful singing of country air through mountains and over streams. Here the world turns over, like a grave person all wrapped up in earth, and the furniture of the universe weeps with joy for one special child to be seated. True to his peculiar habits of adopting striking contrasts and raising them as natural siblings, Arcadia is temporary and present few times through this poetic life. For under the romantic ground of transformed nature lies a familiar world of political realism and untrammeled power. If Virgil had chosen otherwise than to transfigure, the Eclogues might not have been as lasting as they have been through all proceeding time.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-02 00:00:00 John Steverding I did actually read this in the sense that my brain processed the words coming into through my eyes and getting silently pronounced in my head. Please don't ask me anything else about them. I have hardly any clue what I actually read. ------------------------------------------ 70. The Eclogues by Virgil composed: 37 bce format: ~46 page project Gutenberg public domain translation (translator unknown) acquired: Project Gutenberg, here: read: Nov 26-27 rating: ??