Bucoliques (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Bucoliques》(英語表記)Bucoliques
Bucoliques (English spelling)

…Immediately after its publication, it was enthusiastically received as a pioneer by the Romantic poets who were on the rise at the time. By imitating the Greek classics, he succeeded in restoring the simplicity and freshness of ancient poetry to poetry, and he created the Bucoliques and Elégies, including masterpieces such as “L'aveugle” and “La jeune tarentine”, which sing of Homer, and also left behind several unfinished epic poems with a grandiose concept of incorporating the new scientific ideas of the Encyclopedists into ancient poetic forms (L'invention, Hermès, and L'Amérique). He was the greatest poet who expressed the spirit of the 18th century, and at the same time, he was a pioneer who prepared the way for the restoration of poetry in the 19th century. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Bucoliques" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…刊行直後から,当時台頭しつつあったロマン派の詩人たちに先駆者として熱烈に迎え入れられた。彼はギリシア古典の模倣によって,古代の詩の素朴さと新鮮さを再び詩に取り戻すことに成功し,ホメロスを歌った〈盲人L’aveugle〉や〈ターラントの娘La jeune tarentine〉などの傑作を含む《牧歌Bucoliques》や《悲歌Elégies》をつくり,また,百科全書派の新しい科学思想を古代の詩形に盛り込むという壮大な構想をもった幾編かの未完の叙事詩を残している(《創造L’invention》《エルメスHermès》《アメリカL’Amérique》)。彼は18世紀の時代精神を表現した最高の詩人であると同時に,19世紀における詩の復権を準備した先駆者である。…

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