ec·logue ( k lôg , -l g)n. A pastoral poem, usually in the form of a dialogue between shepherds.
[Middle English eclog, from Latin ecloga, from Greek eklog , selection, from eklegein, to select; see eclectic.] |
eclogue [ˈɛklɒg]n (Literature / Poetry) a pastoral or idyllic poem, usually in the form of a conversation or soliloquy [from Latin ecloga short poem, collection of extracts, from Greek eklogē selection, from eklegein to select; see eclectic]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | eclogue - a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral lifepastoral - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) |
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| He, indeed, appeared at the annual exhibition, to the prodigious exultation of all his relatives, a farmer’s family in the vicinity, and repeated the whole of the first eclogue from memory, observing the intonations of the dialogue with much judgment and effect. "Then to the yard with the whole of them," said the curate; "for to have the burning of Queen Pintiquiniestra, and the shepherd Darinel and his eclogues, and the bedevilled and involved discourses of his author, I would burn with them the father who begot me if he were going about in the guise of a knight-errant. The significance of 'The Shepherd's Calendar' lies partly in its genuine feeling for external Nature, which contrasts strongly with the hollow conventional phrases of the poetry of the previous decade, and especially in the vigor, the originality, and, in some of the eclogues, the beauty, of the language and of the varied verse. |