Eclogues

The narrator is writing a novel also titled “Marshlands,” about a man named Tityrus, from Virgil’s “Eclogues,” who lives in an empty, grassy region.

And then there’s W. G. Sebald, Nan Shepherd, and J. A. Baker, whose “The Peregrine” is one of the few set-texts for Werner Herzog’s “Rogue Film School” — along with Virgil’s “Eclogues” and “The Warren Report”!

They read like Virgilian eclogues in the age of autocorrect.

Poets are given vast fees by international conglomerates for their latest eclogues, while screenwriters live in poverty, paid a pittance for their largely ignored outpourings.

Aldo published the Greek poet Theocritus’s “Idylls” and his 1501 edition of Virgil opened with the “Eclogues.”