Le Bucoliche by Virgil
A collection of pastoral poems that imagines rustic life through dialogues and monologues of shepherds, blending idyllic scenes of singing contests, unrequited love, and simple rural labor with mythic allusion and elegiac melancholy; beneath the bucolic surface the poems reflect political displacement, personal loss, and hopes for renewal, sometimes turning toward prophetic visions of a restored golden age, all rendered in polished, evocative verse that contrasts the charm of the countryside with deeper social and emotional tensions.
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- Published
- -38
- Nationality
- Roman
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 40-80 pages
- Original Language
- Latin
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- Alternate Titles
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- Bucolica
- Bucolics
- Eclogues
- Le Bucoliche
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