Note 5 — FIRST EVENING.[5]
Miss (Elizabeth) Gunning translation
This first book has been translated into a variety of languages; it is the best eclogue that has been composed in the last fifty years: the descriptions and imagery it contains are perfectly suited to the style of pastoral poetry; indeed many of the images would not have disgraced the pen of a Virgil.
Dubos. Reflections on Poetry and Painting.