Sentence examples for eclogue from inspiring English sources
noun
A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds.
The eclogue "Aprill" is in praise of the shepherdess Elisa, really the queen (Elizabeth I) herself.
By the time he returned home in 1526 he had become familiar with Italian verse forms and metres: the sonnet and canzone of Petrarch, the tercet of Dante, the ottava rima of Ariosto, the eclogue in the manner of Sannazzaro, and Italian hendecasyllabic verse.
Although it occurs in cosmogonic settings (e.g., the tree that unites heaven and earth), motifs of the reconciliation of animal and plant opposites more usually occur in paradisiacal imagery that promises the harmonious mingling of realms (e.g., the "peaceable kingdom" of Isaiah 11 6 8 or Virgil's Eclogue IV).
He introduced the elegy, the eclogue, the epigram, the epithalamium (nuptial poem), and the one-stanza Italian satiric strambotto (French estrabot) into French poetry, and he was one of the first French poets to attempt the Petrarchan sonnet form.
The eclogue, along with other pastoral forms, was revived during the Renaissance by the Italians Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Battista Spagnoli (Mantuanas), whose neo-Latin Eclogues (1498) were read and imitated for more than a century.
From the Eclogues of Virgil a town dweller's paean to country life to the Corn Laws in Britain, which this newspaper was founded in 1843 to battle against, to the Treaty of Rome, which singled out farmers for special help, agriculture has always been special in Europe.
The four eclogues are in the Virgilian tradition and are also influenced by Calpurnius.
As a result the sonnets increased from 65 in the first edition to 352 in the Juromenha edition; the total number of poems, including sonnets, sextets, odes, octets, eclogues, elegies, and the Portuguese forms known as canções, redondilhas, motos, esparsas, and glosas had risen from 170 in the first edition to 593 by 1860.
In Camões a profound Classical education combined with perfect mastery of poetic technique and a lifetime of varied experience to produce in sonnets, eclogues, odes, elegies, and canções (songs) the greatest poetry of the Portuguese language.
The poet Bernardim Ribeiro, whose five eclogues introduced pastoral poetry to Portugal, was equally an innovator in prose with his pastoral novel Hystoria de menina e moça (1554; "Story of My Childhood and Adolescence"), a tale of rustic love and melancholy with chivalric elements.
