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BUCOLICS (from the Gr. j owKOXucor, " pertaining to a herds-man ")

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 733 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BUCOLICS (from the Gr. j owKOXucor, " pertaining to a herds-man ") , a
term
  occasionally used for rural or
pastoral
  poetry. The expression has been traced back in
English
  to the beginning of the 14th
century
 , being used to describe the " Eclogues " of Virgil. The most celebrated collection of bucolics in antiquity is that of Theocritus, of which about thirty, in the Doric dialect, and mainly written in
hexameter
  verse, have been preserved. This was the name, as is believed, originally given by Virgil to his
pastoral
  poems, with the direct
object
  of challenging comparison with the writings of Theocritus. In
modern
  times the
term
  " bucolics " has not often been specifically given by the poets to their pastorals; the main exception being that of Ronsard, who collected his eclogues under the title of " Les Bucoliques." In general practice the word is almost a synonym for pastoral poetry, but has come to
bear
  a slightly more agricultural than shepherd signification, so that the " Georgics " of Virgil has grown to seem almost more " bucolic " than his " Eclogues." (See also PASTORAL.) (E. G.)


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