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Theocritus

Ancient Greek poet Theocritus ' history is uncertain and biographical information must be pieced together through his poetry. It is most possible he was born in Syracuse, as he claims in his verse to be a countryman of Homer's Sicilian Cyclops. Speculation places him variously around the Mediterranean throughout his lifetime, ... read more

Robert Wells

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher, and in publishing. He lives in France. Carcanet has published his translations of Virgil's Georgics and The Idylls of Theocritus, and five volumes of his poetry, the latest being Collected Poems and Translations (2009). ... read more

Praise for Robert Wells 'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other... The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them - bathers, wood-cutters, hay harvesters - are the setting and characters of Wells's poems.'
George Mackay Brown 'Wells is a quiet poet... he inherits the tender, threatening profundity of Edward Thomas.'
Anne Stevenson
'Robert Wells's language is exact, the experience of the poem is deeply gone through, there is a constant desire to adhere to the truth as he apprehended it rather than to glamorize it. The inexpressible becomes expressed. At one point I started marking my favourite poems, but I like so many of them that I gave up.'
Thom Gunn

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Idylls Theocritus Translated by Robert Wells Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Author Reviews Theocritus Ancient Greek poet Theocritus ' history is uncertain and biographical information must be pieced together through his poetry. It is most possible he was born in Syracuse, as he claims in his verse to be a countryman of Homer's Sicilian Cyclops. Speculation places him variously around the Mediterranean throughout his lifetime, ... read more Robert Wells Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher, and in publishing. He lives in France. Carcanet has published his translations of Virgil's Georgics and The Idylls of Theocritus, and five volumes of his poetry, the latest being Collected Poems and Translations (2009). ... read more Praise for Robert Wells 'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other... The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them - bathers, wood-cutters, hay harvesters - are the setting and characters of Wells's poems.' George Mackay Brown 'Wells is a quiet poet... he inherits the tender, threatening profundity of Edward Thomas.' Anne Stevenson 'Robert Wells's language is exact, the experience of the poem is deeply gone through, there is a constant desire to adhere to the truth as he apprehended it rather than to glamorize it. The inexpressible becomes expressed. At one point I started marking my favourite poems, but I like so many of them that I gave up.' Thom Gunn	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Fyfield Books Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog PN Review 265: Editorial read more Patrick Worsnip: On Translating Saba read more In the Quaker Hotel: Helen Tookey read more Caroline Bird: Rookie read more PN Review 264: Editorial read more The Lascaux Notebooks: Philip Terry read more
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Idylls

Theocritus

Translated by Robert Wells