Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pastoral poem, usually in the form of a dialogue between shepherds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with one another; a bucolic: as, the eclogues of Virgil.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
Etymologies
- Middle English eclog, from Latin ecloga, from Greek eklogē, selection, from eklegein, to select; see eclectic.
Examples
“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
“[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
“That's not to be confused with an eclogue, which is a poetic pastoral dialogue.”
“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”
“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”
“The two books are both made up of two volumes, with a prologue, an epilogue, and an "eclogue" in between each volume.”
“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.”
“[1] As Redford notes, the phrase echoes two poems from the age of Augustus, a satire by Horace and an eclogue of Vergil, and in each of these contexts the two words seria and ludo take on slightly different meanings.”
“Whether the eclogue about the caring wife will be destroyed?”
“The eclogue, commonly known as a form of pastoral poem composed of the dialogue of shepherds about the joys of their rural environment, invokes the muse, typically, as the first order of business.”
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