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Idyll

noun

An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.

A musical composition that evokes rural life. Synonyms: idyl, pastoral, pastorale.

A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life. Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyl.

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... drama to absorb pastoral elements rather from the lyric and the idyll than from regular plays in that kind is significant. It is the acknowledgement of an important fact, which pastoralism failed to recognize; namely, that as the expression of the pastoral idea gained in complexity of artistic structure it lost in vitality. ...

— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... of the emotion must have given you a thrill of real pleasure, Dorian," interrupted Lord Henry. "But I can finish your idyll for you. You gave her good advice, and broke her heart. That was ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... part of the suite in its original form, but was not printed until several years after the publication of the rest of the music. The earlier portion, comprising four parts ("In a Haunted Forest," "Summer Idyll," "The Shepherdess' Song," "Forest Spirits"), was published in 1891, ...

— Edward MacDowell • Lawrence Gilman

... pen of Banneker, his idyll, fulfilled, lengthened out over radiant months. Io was to him all that dreams had ever promised or portrayed. Their association, flowering to the full amidst the rush and turmoil of the city, was the antithesis to its budding in the desert peace. To see the more of his ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... referred to Claudian's first Idyll:—"Oceani summo circumfluus cequore lucus Trans Indos Eurumque viret," &c. See ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

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