Daphnis

METADATA

Metadata

Daphnis

Poet(s)

Theocritus

Credits

Translator

Sheehan, John

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Temple Bar 41, 405–407, May 1874.

First line

Begin, Sicilian Muses, your sweetest pastoral strain!

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the prose contribution “An Evening with Theocritus” by John Sheehan (401-09) (HD). Translator attribution: Robert Thomas Kerlin, Theocritus in English Literature (Virginia: J. P. Bell Company, 1910), p. 124. (NM)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 17481

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Daphnis