Theocritus, translated into English Verse
English translation · Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley
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Cambridge poet C. S. Calverley, a former Fellow of Christ's College and author of Fly Leaves, put the Idylls of Theocritus into English verse, and this is the third edition. Theocritus was a Greek poet of the third century BC, regarded as the founder of pastoral poetry.
Calverley's preface explains his choices. He had meant to use blank verse throughout, but found other metres had their own advantages, among them a fourteen-syllable line close in length to Theocritus's own, and he used rhymed stanzas where shepherds sing in turn, as in the ninth Idyll.
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- Author
- Theocritus
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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