Eclogues

American  

[ek-lawgz, -logz] / ˈɛk lɔgz, -lɒgz /

noun

1. a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil.

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Example Sentences

The narrator is writing a novel also titled “Marshlands,” about a man named Tityrus, from Virgil’s “Eclogues,” who lives in an empty, grassy region.

From New York Times

And then there’s W. G. Sebald, Nan Shepherd, and J. A. Baker, whose “The Peregrine” is one of the few set-texts for Werner Herzog’s “Rogue Film School” — along with Virgil’s “Eclogues” and “The Warren Report”!

From New York Times

They read like Virgilian eclogues in the age of autocorrect.

From The New Yorker

Poets are given vast fees by international conglomerates for their latest eclogues, while screenwriters live in poverty, paid a pittance for their largely ignored outpourings.

From The Guardian

Aldo published the Greek poet Theocritus’s “Idylls” and his 1501 edition of Virgil opened with the “Eclogues.”

From New York Times