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- Title
The Use of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in the Eneados of Gavin Douglas.
- Authors
LEAHY, CONOR
- Abstract
When Gavin Douglas thought most deeply about Virgil, he did not think of the Aeneid alone. With the help of Badius Ascensius's 1501 edition of Virgil's Opera, Douglas became the first poet in Scotland or England to use the Georgics as a direct source, while his use of the Eclogues is no less significant. When adapting such material for his Prologues, Douglas displays the same careful attention to the commentary tradition that we find in the body of his Aeneid translation. His concern shifts momentarily from that of a faithful translator to that of a skilled compiler, his end no longer accuracy but meaningful poetic assimilation. Although such moments are relatively brief, Douglas's use of the Eclogues and Georgics reveals a poetic engagement with Virgil's corpus that was altogether new on the island of Britain.
- Subjects
DOUGLAS, Gavin; SCOTTISH literature; PASTORAL poetry; PASTORAL literature; PASTORAL elegies
- Publication
Medievalia et Humanistica, 2015, Vol 41, p101
- ISSN
0076-6127
- Publication type
Article