He, indeed, appeared at the annual exhibition, to the prodigious exultation of all his relatives, a farmer’s family in the vicinity, and repeated the whole of the first
eclogue from memory, observing the intonations of the dialogue with much judgment and effect.
"Then to the yard with the whole of them," said the curate; "for to have the burning of Queen Pintiquiniestra, and the shepherd Darinel and his eclogues, and the bedevilled and involved discourses of his author, I would burn with them the father who begot me if he were going about in the guise of a knight-errant."
"The author of that book, too," said the curate, "is a great friend of mine, and his verses from his own mouth are the admiration of all who hear them, for such is the sweetness of his voice that he enchants when he chants them: it gives rather too much of its eclogues, but what is good was never yet plentiful: let it be kept with those that have been set apart.
Spenser, however, soon outgrew this folly and in 1579 published the collection of poems which, as we have already said, is commonly taken as marking the beginning of the great Elizabethan literary period, namely 'The Shepherd's Calendar.' This is a series of pastoral pieces (
eclogues, Spenser calls them, by the classical name) twelve in number, artificially assigned one to each month in the year.
Gilbert published his poem The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western
Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, the very dawn of the English Romantic poetry, says Cheshire, and soon such luminaries as Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth were praising it and borrowing from it.
She connects these to Garcilaso's third
eclogue, which comprises a lyric version of a figurative tapestry, in which nymphs weave a tapestry while the poet weaves his verse.
But Puttenham believes in the
eclogue's status as 'artificial poesy'.
Vergil's third
Eclogue is a bucolic (pastoral) and agonistic (competitive) poem that was inspired by Theocritus's fourth Idyll.
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Violinist Benjamin Baker delivered a moving, note perfect Lark Ascending and his virtuosity was matched in the less familiar
Eclogue for Strings (Gerald Finzi) by pianist Walter Delahunt.