Eclogue

An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics.

Modern Eclogues

In English literature, Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender belongs to the genre, as does Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Alexander Pope produced a series of eclogues in imitation of Virgil. The Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega also wrote eclogues in the Virgilian style. In French, Pierre de Ronsard wrote a series of eclogues under the title Les Bucoliques, and Clément Marot also wrote in the genre. In Central Europe, Miklós Radnóti, the Hungarian Jewish poet wrote remarkable, superb eclogues about his truly tragic era, the Holocaust (he was executed by the fleeing German army some months before the end of WWII).

Related Topics:
English literature - Edmund Spenser - Philip Sidney - Alexander Pope - Spanish - Garcilaso de la Vega - French - Pierre de Ronsard - Clément Marot - Central Europe - Miklós Radnóti - Hungarian - Jewish - Holocaust

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