Recommend a book on the Eclogues

[David Wilson-Okamura]

How would you advise someone with the following query?

"I’ve read the Aeneid off and on all my life, but I’m a newcomer to the Eclogues. They come overburdened with expectations, but one thing I never expected was to hear the grinding gears of history behind the piping pastoral note. Where can I find in compact form a consideration of Virgil’s creation of an immense world of change and disorder as a background for pastoral? If there’s book length treatment of these poems in their historical setting, I would also like to read it. I have the usual Romance languages and German at my disposal."

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Dr. David Wilson-Okamura        http://virgil.org          da...@virgil.org

Professor of English                 Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c

East Carolina University           "Beep beep and beep beep, yeah."

[anthony dimatteo]

Professor -

To recommend works I am sure you know only too well - 

Number one on my list would be Annabel Patterson's Pastoral and Ideology: From Virgil to Valery.  

Also, Renato Poggioli, The Oaten Flute and Paul Alpers, The Singer of the Eclogues.

In comity - 

Tony 

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[David Wilson-Okamura]

Thank you, Tony. I've forwarded your suggestion, together with Galinsky's Augustan Culture: not a book on the Eclogues per se, but one that addresses chaos and change in the art of this period.