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The relation of Shelley's Elegy of Adonais to the two Elegies written by Bion and by Moschus must no doubt have been observed, and been more or less remarked upon, as soon as Adonais obtained some currency among classical readers; Captain Medwin, in his Shelley Papers, 1832, referred to it. I am not however aware that the resemblances had ever been brought out in detail until Mr.
Our only certain information about Moschus is contained in his own Dirge for Bion. He speaks of his verse as 'Ausonian song, and of himself as Mion's pupil and successor. It is plain that he was acquainted with the poems of Theocritus. Cypris was raising the hue and cry for Love, her child, 'Who, where the three ways meet, has seen Love wandering?
I read, O friend, no pages of old lore, Which I loved well, and yet the wingèd days, That softly passed as wind through green spring ways And left a perfume, swift fly as of yore, Though in clear Plato's stream I look no more, Neither with Moschus sing Sicilian lays. Nor with bold Dante wander in amaze, Nor see our Will the Golden Age restore.
The Dinkas have a strange old chant: 'At the beginning, when Dendid made all things, He created the Sun, And the Sun is born, and dies, and comes again! He created the Stars, And the Stars are born, and die, and come again! He created Man, And Man is born, and dies, and returns no more! It is like the lament of Moschus.
Incidental mention may be also made of a 'dialogue betwixt two sea nymphs, Doris and Galatea, concerning Polyphemus, briefly translated out of Lucian, by Giles Fletcher the elder, in his Licia of 1593; and a version of 'The First Eidillion of Moschus describing Love, in Barnabe Barnes' Parthenophil and Parthenophe, which probably appeared the same year.
Had he not been 'struck by the envious wrath of man, he might even have 'dared to climb' to the 'bright station' occupied by Milton. Of old didst thou love Homer:... now again another son thou weepest. My remark upon st. 13, that there Shelley first had direct recourse to the Elegy of Moschus, should be modified accordingly. Cancelled Passages of Adonais, Preface. These are taken from Dr.
Let us suppose that Moschus, for example, on the strength of having written a sweeter elegy than ever before was chanted over the untimely grave of a friend and fellow-singer, had said within himself, "Go to, I will be Sophocles"; can we imagine that the tragic result would have been other than tragical indeed for the credit of his gentle name, and comical indeed for all who might have envied the mild and modest excellence which fashion or hypocrisy might for years have induced them to besprinkle with the froth and slaver of their promiscuous and pointless adulation?
Moschus is as rich as the Veronese at Venice; and his picture is truer to the premium standard. The painting shows a pampered animal, with over-red blotches on his white hide, and is by half too fat to breast such "salt sea-foam" as flashes on the Idyl of Moschus. Besides which, our friend Aratus holds the abiding honor of having been quoted by St.
When a new order of subjects became fashionable, and when every rich Alexandrian had pictures or frescoes on his walls, it appears that the painters took the lead, that the initiative in art was theirs. The loves of the gods are repeated in scores of designs, and these designs closely correspond to the mythological poems of Theocritus and his younger contemporaries Bion and Moschus.
It is perhaps significant that Theocritus appears to have been of Syracusan, Bion of Smyrnian, and Moschus of Ausonian origin. With the exception of this poem, which is modelled on Theocritus' 'Lament for Daphnis, there is little in the work of either of the younger poets of a pastoral nature. Certain fragments, however, if genuine, suggest that poems of the kind may have perished.
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