Although it is hard to tell because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence, Moschus ' influence on Greek bucolic poetry is likely to have been significant ; the influence of Runaway Love is felt in Bion and other later bucolic poets.

It was first invented, he believes, before the Trojan war, by a Sidonian thinker named Moschus or Mochus, who is identical with the Moses of the Old Testament.

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary of Theocritus and a friend and teacher of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now regarded as incorrect: it rests on a misreading of the Epitaph of Bion, a poem commemorating his death, which in early modern times was erroneously attributed to Moschus.

Moschus is also the genus of the musk deer.

His surviving bucolic material ( composed in the traditional dactylic hexameters and Doric dialect ) is short on pastoral themes and is largely erotic and mythological ; although this impression may be distorted by the paucity of evidence, it is also seen in the surviving bucolic of the generations after Moschus, including the work of Bion of Smyrna.

Two Egyptian solitaries told John Moschus a story which is also recorded by Theodorus Lector.

In his Latin documents he signed Johannes Theodori Moscus ( that is " a Muscovite "), or Ioannes Fedorowicz Moschus, typograghus Græcus et Sclavonicus.

Traveling to monastic centres in Asia Minor, Egypt, and Rome, he accompanied the Byzantine chronicler St. John Moschus, who dedicated to him his celebrated tract on the religious life, Leimõn ho Leimõnon ( Greek: “ The Spiritual Meadow ”) ( and whose feast day in the Eastern Orthodox Church,, is shared with Sophonius ').

Bion and Moschus have been edited separately by

As a classical scholar Heinsius edited many Latin and Greek classical as well as patristic authors, amongst others: Hesiod ( 1603 ), Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ( 1603 ), Aristotle ’ s Ars poetica ( 1610 ), Clement of Alexandria ( 1616 ) and Terentius ( 1618 ).

* Andrew Lang ( 1889 ), with Theocritus and Moschus

Aeschines claims that Demosthenes made money out of young rich men, such as Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, whom he allegedly deceived with the pretence that he could make him a great orator.

* Theocritus, Bion and Moschus: Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang, ( 1880 ), London.

His version of Bion, Moschus, Sappho, and Musæus was published with translations of Hesiod by Charles Abraham Elton, and of Lycophron by Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston in 1832.

Moschus decides to take only one of the twins, Menaechmus, with him on a business trip, while the twins are still young.

Amongst other residence of Dubrovnik were the physician Baglivi ; the mathematician Roger Joseph Boscovich ; several members of the family of Stay ( Stojic ), Raimondo Cunich, the author of many Latin poems and for a long time a professor in the Gregorian college at Rome ; Bernardo Zamagna, who translated into Latin the Odyssey, Hesiod, Theocritus, and Moschus ; Cardinal Giovanni Stoiko, who was sent as legate to the council of Basle ; Simone Benessa, a jurist, the author of a book on the practice of the courts of Ragusa and Benedetto Cotrugli, who was employed in several important offices of state, such as the Kingdom of Naples.

The Suda lists the ancient canon of Greek bucolic poets as Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, which should reflect chronogical order, and Moschus flourished in the mid 2nd century BC.

Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.

Theocritus was imitated by the Greek poets Bion and Moschus.

* Poems by Moschus English translations

* Works of Moschus at Theoi Project translated by J. M.

* ‘ Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musæus translated into English by a gentleman of Cambridge ,’ 1760.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated Hesiod ( 1806 ), Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ( 1808 ), the whole of Virgil ( 1799, rev.

For the 6th century A. D. Syrian writer, see Joannes Moschus.

* For a recent overview of Moschus see A. Porro in Eikasmos 10 ( 1999 ) 125 – 25.

Mammals of the East Siberian taiga include Siberian Musk Deer ( Moschus moschiferus ), moose ( Alces alces ), elk ( Cervus canadensis ) and wild boar ( Sus scrofa ).

Moschus has twin sons, Menaechmus and Sosicles.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

Plato's attitude toward poetry has always been something of an enigma, because he is so completely sensitive to its charm.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers -- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight ''.

And we can add that Krutch's interpretation of purgation is also one answer to Plato's fear that poetry will encourage our passions.

Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

This involves a shift in Patchen's attitude and it is a first step toward writing a new jazz poetry.

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;