Greek pastoral poets : Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus /

Mode of access: Internet.

Australian eco-pastoral poetry

Les Murray and Judith Wright are two Australian poets who are widely read as landscape poets. While this framing offers valuable insights into their work it often fails to bring the importance into a contemporary context or to recognise the long tradition Australia has had with , to use Leo Marx’ term, “the complex pastoral”. As Ruth Blair reminds us in her chapter “Hugging the Shore: The Green Mountains of South-East Queensland” in The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers it is accepted that North America has a tradition of the complex pastoral mode but it should be remembered that Australia also has a long history of this form. Both Judith Wright’s and Les Murray’s poetry encourages active campaigning for the environment .These Australian poets are eco-pastoral poets whose poetry encourages active reading rather than passive reflections. Their poetry speaks to the strong connection between the lived everyday landscape and the imagination of past, present and future. Their work is imbued with a strong sense of ecocritical awareness while at the same time drawing on pastoral conventions. These two Australian poets do not offer idealistic pastoral notions but rather reveal the complexities of lived human/nonhuman relationships. This paper will discuss these complexities and how poetry can be experienced as literature in action—ways for readers to connect with and negotiate with the land they inhabit. The research for this paper was, in part, drawn from the responses that local community library groups offered after reading the works of these poets. What became evident from this research was the way the poetry made the readers think not only of landscape as a place of refuge from the urban technological world but also as a contemporary place with connection to agency that motivates readers into active change.

Nicholas Breton, Pastoral poems; George Wither, Selected poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock), Pastoral poetry.

Large paper ed., limited to 250 copies.

Bucolici Graeci /

Mode of access: Internet.

Theocritus, Bio et Moschus /

Text in Greek.

Theocriti reliquiae, utroque sermone : cum scholiis Graecis et commentariis integris Henrici Stephani, Iosephi Scaligeri, et Isaci Casauboni /

Vol. 1: [8], XLIII, [1], 296 p.; v. 2: XVI, 332, [296] p. (the last leaf blank).

England's Helicon, a collection or lyrical and pastoral poems: published in 1600,

Title vignette.

Little poems from the Greek,

"First printed, January 1922. Reprinted, March 1922."

The Greek anthology /

Mode of access: Internet.

Specimens of the poets and poetry of Greece and Rome /

Selections preceded by short note on each author.

Harvard lectures on Greek subjects,

"Public lectures delivered at Harvard University in April, 1904."--Pref.

The Falls of Clyde : or, The fairies; a Scotish dramatic pastoral, in five acts. With three preliminary dissertations.

"Introduction, consisting of three dissertations, I. On-fairies. II. On the Scotish language. III. On pastoral poetry" : p.[3]-101.

Extracts from the Greek elegiac poets from Callinus to Callimachus : to which are added a few epigrams /

Includes index.

Select epigrams from the Greek anthology ;

Greek text with English translation at foot of page.

A chaplet from the Greek anthology /

Mode of access: Internet.