Vergil Author (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8" x 10.5" 127 pps. Collection of b/w cartoons. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. White paper-covered boards with red-striped border, 3-color cartoon and black title is clean, tight and bright with minimal wear. Matching DJ is somewhat toned; minimal wear. In protective mylar. By Author (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. First edition, first printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Full red cloth, silver spine lettering; issued without dust jacket. Fine. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 49 pages including notes. Vergil s Eclogues presents ten pastoral poems that established the foundational mode of European bucolic verse, here rendered into English by Barbara Hughes Fowler. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family s land, Vergil s appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides a new American verse translation of Vergil s Eclogues. An accomplished translator, Fowler renders the poet s words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original. In an introduction to the text, she compares the treatment of the pastoral form by Vergil and Theocritus, illuminating the ways in which Vergil borrowed from and built upon the earlier poet s work, and thereby moved the genre in a new direction.…

Hardcover Slipcase. Condition: Fine. No DJ. No marks in book. Appears unread. Slipcase and hardcover unmarked. Translated by John Dryden. Introduction by George F. Whicher. Illustrations by Bruno Bramanti. Sandglass Number III:18, re this volume, laid in. 154 pages.