Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pastoral poem, usually in the form of a dialogue between shepherds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with one another; a bucolic: as, the eclogues of Virgil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pastoral poem , often in the form of a shepherd'smonologue or adialogue betweenshepherds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it"
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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[Footnote 1: 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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That's not to be confused with an eclogue, which is a poetic pastoral dialogue.
SYNTAGMA 2009
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This same poetry as of a higher kind of eclogue characterizes the second of the great works undertaken by Raphael at the command of Leo
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Being not ignorant of Greek, and finding nothing in the word "eclogue" of rural meaning, he supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own productions
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746
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The two books are both made up of two volumes, with a prologue, an epilogue, and an "eclogue" in between each volume.
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley? Richard Bangs 2011
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley? Richard Bangs 2011
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley? Richard Bangs 2011
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We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley? Richard Bangs 2011
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