Category: Poetry

De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684)

Rapin, René, 1621-1687; Congleton, J. E. (James Edmund), 1901-1993 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700 [Translator]· 5 chapters· 16,114 words

EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan BENJAMIN BOYCE, University of Nebraska CLEANTH BROOKS, Louisiana State University JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago SAMUEL H. MONK, University of...

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4. Part 4

Not to mention other kinds of _Poetry_, what particular Genius is requir'd to _Pastoral_ I think, is evident from the foregoing Discourse, for as every part of it ought to be fu...

3. Part 3

Of Poetry in General _Socrates_, as _Plato_ tells us, would have _Fable_ to be the _Form_: _Aristotle_ Imitation: I shall not dispute what difference there is between these two,...

1. Part 1

EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan BENJAMIN BOYCE, University of Nebraska CLEANTH BROOKS, Louisiana State University JAMES L....

2. Part 2

Some ascribe the Honor to _Bacchus_ the President of the _Nymphs, Satyrs_, and the other Country Gods, perhaps because he delighted in the Country; and others attribute it to _A...

5. Part 5

{65} Concerning _Descriptions_ I cannot tell what to lay down, for in this matter our Guides, _Virgil_, and _Theocritus_, do not very well agree. For he in his first _Idyllium_...