Crossword clues for idyll
idyll
- Pastoral work
- Rustic poem
- Peaceful scene
- Poem with a pastoral setting
- Peaceful poem
- Pastoral opus
- Theocritus poem
- Short narrative poem
- Scene of happy innocence
- Rustic writing
- Rustic verse
- Rustic poetry piece
- Romantic poem or scene
- Romantic pastoral composition
- Poem of rustic life
- Poem descriptive of pastoral life
- Pleasant poem
- Piece of peace
- Peaceful, rustic scene
- Peaceful, picturesque scene
- Peaceful pastoral scene
- Peaceful pastoral poem
- Pastoral prose
- Fleeting romance
- Episode of romantic charm
- Charming pastoral scene
- Bucolic work
- Blissful episode
- Pastoral poem
- Virgil creation
- Tennyson poem
- Brief romance
- Romantic interlude
- Rustic opus
- Pastoral piece
- Tennyson work
- Pastoral composition
- Tennyson composition
- "The Coming of Arthur," e.g.
- A musical composition that evokes rural life
- A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
- Narrative in verse
- "The ___ of Miss Sarah Brown," by 18 Across
- Pastoral verse
- Pastoral scene
- Eclogue
- Pastoral literary work
- Group of jolly dimwits set up a happy scene
- Sample found in smelly diaper, in retrospect, is a little piece of heaven
- Picturesque and peaceful scene
- Picturesque scene over in Caerphilly district
- Perfect rustic scene
- Bucolic scene written about in hillbilly diaries
- Blissful period
- Long narrative poem
- Long poem
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See Idol.] A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.]
Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl.
--Mrs.
Browning.
His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home.
--F.
Harrison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also idyl, c.1600, "picturesque pastoral poem," from Latin idyllium, from Greek eidyllion "short, descriptive poem, usually of rustic or pastoral type," literally "a little picture," diminutive of eidos "form" (see -oid).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idylls''. 2 An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience. 3 (context music English) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Idyll'' by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wagner.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An idyll or idyl ( or ; from Greek , eidullion, "short poem") is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage in heroes and warfare. His idylls are limited to a small intimate world, and describe scenes from everyday life. Later imitators include the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, Italian poets Torquato Tasso, Sannazaro and Leopardi, the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( Idylls of the King), and Nietzsche's Idylls from Messina. Goethe called his poem Hermann and Dorothea — which Schiller considered the very climax in Goethe's production — an idyll.
Usage examples of "idyll".
Entertaining feelings of gratitude for my kind host, and disposed to listen attentively to his poem, I dismissed all sadness, and I paid his poetry such compliments that he was delighted, and, finding me much more talented than he had judged me to be at first, he insisted upon treating me to a reading of his idylls, and I had to swallow them, bearing the infliction cheerfully.
The betrothal had been, so to speak, an outdoor idyll, but the cold season and married life make of Masha a stay-at-home, without a responsibility of her own, since the household runs like a clock under the strict supervision of her mother-in-law.
Maryville Anxious to preserve the mood of their brief idyll, John Wood had put off telling Maria about the bees in Maryville.
On it I composed an idyll which I cannot read, even now, without feeling tears in my eyes.
Idylls of the King is a fairly typical Victorian bowdlerization that accepted the prevailing attitude of the time that Le Morte darthur was little more than 'bold bawdry and open manslaughter'.
Sylvan idyll at nightfall, still-life with deranged dot-com refugee and brown office furniture.
His galaxy had been saved, and Honeybloom would live happily in her Stone Age idyll, and Tsopi the Polarian in her circular one.
Queen Victoria had a resident poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and he cleaned up Malory for his queen to produce a work he called Idylls of the King.
I walked to the table and saw that someone had turned Idylls of the King to a new page.
However, it soon develops that Galen isn't quite the middle American idyll it seems to be: tragedies are shrugged off by the population, some of the local dogs can speak, and a weird kind of predestination appears to rule everyday life.
Their idyll was ended by the whine of approaching outboard motors.