Crossword clues for eclogue
eclogue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga, Gr. ? a selection, choice extracts, fr. ? to pick out, choose out; 'ek out + ? to gather, choose: cf. F. ['e]gloque, ['e]cloque. See Ex-, and Legend.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"short poem," especially a pastoral dialogue, mid-15c., from Latin ecloga "selection, short poem, eclogue," from Greek ekloge "a selection," especially of poems, from eklegein "to select" (see eclectic).
Wiktionary
n. A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherd.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "eclogue".
Regency, and that he sketches the scenes and persons of his eclogue not from life, but from memory.
The prevailing opinion of Pastoral seems to have been, that it is a species of composition admirably fitted for the size of an eclogue, but that either its nature will not be preserved, or its simplicity will become surfeiting in a longer performance.
These poems, called the Eclogues, became an instant hit in Rome and were read aloud at fashionable dinner parties.
Virgil followed up the Eclogues with the Georgics, a book of poems about farming.
In the examination of the fourth eclogue, the respectable bishop of London has displayed learning, taste, ingenuity, and a temperate enthusiasm, which exalts his fancy without degrading his judgment.