Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Translation of the First Six Books of Vergil's Aeneid
In 37 the Eclogues (shepherd's Poems) were published. Written in imitation of the Idylls of Theocritus (275 there is little to commend in point of literary form. The subject-matter, however, of the ten pieces gives marked evidence of Virgil's ability. The introduction of fields and skies, brooks, hills, stars, and shepherds, identify ing Italian thought and feeling with foreign literary material, - produced a new individ ual type in Latin literature. If it be remem bered from this work that the terms of nature and the country-side were the terms in which the poet most naturally expressed himself, his seeming failure in the Eneid to give an adequate picture of the Heroic Age will be justified.
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