Theocritus (M)

Surname: Theocritus
Nationality: Greek. VIAF.
Poet. Born c. 300 B. C. Died c. 260 B. C. Lived in Sicily. Known as the creator of pastoral poetry. Author of the Idylls, written in the Greek Doric dialect. Highly influential to the English poetic tradition. Biographical information: Oxford Reference. (SCM)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 16
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
IV. (“Ah! wretched Thyrsis, what avail thy sighs”) 1835-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11602
X. (“Wend onward, goat-herd mine, along that lane”) 1836-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11773
VII. (“Tell, by the Nymphs! wilt thou for me essay”) 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11785
“Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play” 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14130
The Syracusan Orthon warns you this 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14133
The Honey Stealer 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14136
The son of Pæon to Miletus came 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14132
O, mortal, heed thy life, nor quit the port 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14134
Ah! Thyrsis, weep no more: though both thine eyes 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14131
The Honey Stealer 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14137
From Theocritus. Idyll 17 1844 The Keepsake Poet 5012
From Theocritus. Epigram V 1847 The Keepsake Poet 5203
From Theocritus. Idyll the First 1866-02-24 Once a Week Poet 13409
Theocritus.—Idyll I. Thyrsis and a Goatherd 1866-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14323
The Unhappy Lover. (After Theocritus, Id. XXIII) 1867-08-10 Once a Week Poet 13533
The Incantation. (From the Greek of Theocritus.—Id. II.) 1868-10 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14248