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Definition of Eclogue
1. Noun. A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life.
Definition of Eclogue
1. 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.
Definition of Eclogue
1. Noun. A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eclogue
1. a pastoral poem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclogue
Literary usage of Eclogue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"... but he dwells with peculiar complacency on the Sibylline verses,69 and the
The fourth fourth eclogue of Virgil.60 Forty years before the birth of vir^i. ..."
2. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"The recent discussion of this eclogue by Professor Mayor * and Sir William ...
Secondly, that the metrical form employed in this eclogue is unique in Latin ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Arabian eclogue, p. 473. And his red eye-balls roll with living fire. ...
Indian eclogue, p. 475. The cities no inhabitant contained. ..."
4. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"(4) The July eclogue The "July" is the only one of Spenser's ... The fable of
the July eclogue, at any rate, could not have been composed before June, 1577, ..."
5. The Georgic: A Contribution to the Study of the Vergilian Type of Didactic by Marie Loretto Lilly (1919)
"The conventional pastoral occurs chiefly in the forms of the eclogue, ...
The eclogue is, in itself, inherently lyric, and dramatic ; and in it is found ..."
6. The Classical Journal (1812)
"NOTICE OF Illustration of Virgil's Fourth eclogue. 1 HE Preface" contains a
Summary of each Chapter. In the First and Second Chapters, the Author reviews ..."
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