pastoral+poem
61bucolic — /bjuˈkɒlɪk / (say byooh kolik) adjective Also, bucolical. 1. of or relating to shepherds; pastoral. 2. rustic; rural; agricultural: bucolic isolation. –noun 3. a farmer; a shepherd; a rustic. 4. a pastoral poem: * Country Towns is a small and… …
62bucolic — [byo͞o käl′ik] adj. [L bucolicus < Gr boukolikos < boukolos, herdsman < bous, ox (see COW1) + kolos < ? IE base * kel , to drive > HOLD1, L celer] 1. of shepherds; pastoral 2. of country life or farms; rustic n …
63bucolic — adj. & n. adj. of or concerning shepherds, the pastoral life, etc.; rural. n. 1 (usu. in pl.) a pastoral poem or poetry. 2 a peasant. Derivatives: bucolically adv. Etymology: L bucolicus f. Gk boukolikos f. boukolos herdsman f. bous OX …
64R. S. Thomas — Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000) (published as R. S. Thomas) was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. He was the best known Welsh poet …
65Common scold — Punishing a common scold in the dunking stool In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a species of public nuisance a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarreling with her… …
66Goodale Sisters — Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863 1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866 1953) were American poets and sisters, who published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman s classic An American Anthology… …
67Scève, Maurice — (ca. 1501 ca. 1564) French poet, a member of the group known as La Pléiade, especially important for bringing Neoplatonic influence into French poetry. He was born into a pros perous family of Lyon and received an excellent humanistic educa… …
68Spenser, Edmund — (ca. 1552 1599) English poet. He is best known for his allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). Born in London, he was educated at the Merchant Taylors School, an institution that emphasized the value of humanistic education to pre… …
69Adamson, Henry — (d. 1639) A Scottish poet, native of Perth, and son of Provost James Adamson, who was dean of guild in Perth at the time of the Gowrie conspiracy an attempt on the life of King James VI at Gowrie House in Perth. Although educated for the… …
70eclogue — [ek′lôg΄] n. [ME eclog < L ecloga, a short poem (esp. one of the Eclogae, bucolic poems of Virgil) < Gr eklogē, selection, esp. of poems < eklegein: see ECLECTIC] a short, usually pastoral, poem, often in the form of a dialogue between… …
