Theocritus

( 300 BC c.-260 BC c.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Theocritus LBT ID: Theoc260 VIAF ID: 95161348 LOC ID: n50033430	B/BAP: -0300 DIED: -0260
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Greek pastoral poet whose Sicilian verse was imitated by Virgil and many later poets.
REFERENCES TO Theocritus: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [21 August 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Roscoe to Samuel Parr, [March? 1806] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 1 July 1817 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [17 September 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 622a Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 22 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (14 January 1831) 453-55 Found 1: ¶ n1 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 19 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Verse 1: p. 74p Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XVII. 1820-1823 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 1: ¶ Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Poets and Poetry Found 1: ¶ 3 Pisa: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 2 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 16 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 3: Boyhood Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. 16: British Association Found 1: ¶ 11 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XVII. 1820. Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Letters: 1823 Verse 1: p. 622a