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Is There a Word Eclogue?

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Is There a Word Eclogue?

The Poetic History of Eclogue
Although the eclogue appears in the Idylls of the Greek poet Theocritus, it was the 10 Eclogues (or Bucolics) of the Roman poet Virgil that gave us the word eclogue. ... The poems traditionally depicted rural life as free from the complexity and corruption of more citified realms.

What Eclogue means?

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 complexity and corruption of more civilized life.

Who introduced Eclogue into English?

Modern eclogues

The first English language eclogues were written by Alexander Barclay, in 1514. In English literature, Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calendar (1579) also belongs to the genre (twelve eclogues, one for each month of the year).

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