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Eclogues

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[ek-lawgz, -logz] / ˈɛk lɔgz, -lɒgz /

noun

  1. a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil.


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Virgil's Eclogues, Edmund Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calendar", John Clare's "The Seasons" contribute to the backdrop for the new staging.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2011

His new triumph: a $350-a-copy edition of Virgil's Eclogues, illustrated with 25 superb color lithographs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though Villon has made more than 600 prints in his long career, the Eclogues was his first major try at book illustration.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same tradition, Sculptor Aristide Maillol's woodcuts for a 1924 edition of Virgil's Eclogues reduce the human figure to a flattish, quietly harmonious arrangement of ink lines, yet retain the emotive power of illustration.

From Time Magazine Archive

His early work is redolent of Virgil's "Eclogues," of Horace, of Shakespeare, of Milton's minor poems, of Gray's "Elegy."

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau

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