Look up: eclogue

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   Eclogue
   Short pastoral poem originally written by Virgil who was imitating the idylls of Theocritus. Eclogues may also express religious or ethical themes. A modern example of the form is Eclogue from Iceland by Louis MacNeice. The eclogue is sometimes known as the bucolic.
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   eclogue
   [n] - a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
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   Eclogue
   Ec'logue noun [ Latin ecloga , Greek ... a selection, choice extracts, from ... to pick out, choose out; ... out + ... to gather, choose: confer French égloque , écloque . See Ex- , and Legend .] A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the wo ...
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   eclogue
   bucolic noun a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
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   Eclogue
   An `eclogue` is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called `bucolics`. The etymology of the word is a Romanization of the Greek `eklegē` and the term was used by later Latin poets to refer to their own bucolic poetry, often in imitation of Virgil. The combination of Virgil's influence and the persistence of bucolic poetry through the Renaissance imposed 'eclogues' as the accepted term for th...
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   Eclogue
   • (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
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   eclogue
   a short pastoral poem, usually in dialogue, on the subject of rural life and the society of shepherds, depicting rural life as free from the ... [1 related articles]
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   eclogue
   a brief pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, court, political, or social issues. Bucolics and idylls, like eclogues, are pastoral poems in non-dramatic form. Examples are Alexander Barclay's Eclogues, Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender: April, Jonathan Swift's 'A Town Eclogue,' and Andrew Marvell's 'Nymph Complainin...
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