Idyll

An idyll or idyl is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Later imitators included the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, and the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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Idyll (Gr. eidyllion (little picture), is also the name of a kind of painting usually representing a pastor and his animals in a rural setting. They are depicted in a natural way, the three components, man, animal and the environment being in a harmonious unity, rendering the picture not to be a landscape, or a genre, or just an image of an animal. Nature in this combination is presented in a non-sophisticated, realistic fashion.

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The subjects of such pictures are usually simple people living in uncivilised conditions, featuring naivity in their thinking and yet leading a happy and cheerful life. The approach to the presentation is not humorous, but emotional, sometimes sentimental.

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Theocritus: Theocritus (Greek ?????????), the creator of Ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC....

Virgil: Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic....

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Yampa River Idyll	A Woodland Idyll