The final four stanzas pay tribute to 'honest' Allan Ramsay's revival of Scottish poetry and his influence on pastoral.

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

"And I can sing, as once upon a time Theban Amphion used to sing when he was calling home the cows on Attic Aracynthus." Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Passionate Shepherd, from the Pastoral ...

I will take up my slender reed and practise the music of the countryside. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Song of Silenus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, ...