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Theocritus
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Theocritus : "Idyll I"
'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading: '"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).
Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book
Theocritus : poems
'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
Theocritus : Hylas
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
Theocritus : The Island of Cos
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
Theocritus : The Syracusan Women
'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
Theocritus : Hylas
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'We were sitting (1857 or so) late at night in the Farringford attic-room [...] and Tennyson read over to me the little Theocritan Idyll "Hylas" [goes on to describe the reading further]'.
