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Definition of Bucolic

Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Meaning of Bucolic from wikipedia

- genre is usually referred to as a pastorale. The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Gr**** βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd. Pastoral...
- also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Gr**** bucolic poetry of Theocritus...
- Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling...
- Bucolics is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands"...
- consisting of poems whose authorship was doubtful yet formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, the other a strict collection of those works considered to have...
- Moschus (Gr****: Μόσχος) was an ancient Gr**** bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was born at Syracuse...
- Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Gr**** poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between...
- idealistic values of American scene painting, his works often portray bucolic and idyllic settings, such as gardens, streams, stone cottages, lighthouses...
- prin****lly in France. The beginnings of modern fiction in France took a pseudo-bucolic form, and the celebrated L'Astrée, (1610) of Honore d'Urfe (1568–1625)...
- choral song and dance Thalia (the 'blossoming one'): muse of comedy and bucolic poetry Urania (the 'celestial one'): muse of astronomy No muse was identified...