eclogues in English

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a short poem, especially a pastoral dialogue.
English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
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1. Some excellent examples of Bucolics are Virgil's Eclogues

2. The Eclogues, sometimes called also Bucolica or Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poems. THE STUDENT'S MYTHOLOGY CATHERINE ANN WHITE The Bucolics are eclogues, and never touch upon either of these subjects

3. The Bucolics are eclogues, and never touch upon either of these subjects. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 The Rev

4. “The Bucolics” (Lat: “Bucolica”), also known as “The Eclogues” (Lat: “Eclogae”), is a collection of ten pastoral poems by the Roman poet Vergil ().It was Vergil’s first major work, published in 37 BCE

5. As a noun, a bucolic (or, often, Bucolics) refers to a short, sentimental poem that takes place in the midst of pastoral or country life. Some excellent examples of Bucolics are Virgil's Eclogues

6. Vergil’s “Bucolics”, also known as the “Eclogues”, are a series of ten short pastoral poems on rural subjects, which he published in 38 BCE (Bucolics as a genre had been pioneered by Theocritus in the 3rd Century BCE)

7. ‘The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires.’ ‘The picture most admired by literary men was Poussin's second treatment of the theme ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’, The Shepherds of Arcady, c

8. ‘Thomas begins with recent neo-Kantian studies of the aesthetics of melancholy, and applies these ideas to a number of case studies, chiefly the Bucolics of Virgil, the eclogues of Miklós Radnóti, and the utopian lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.’ ‘An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.