Eclogue
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An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene
The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library
The Shepheardes Calender
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The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals at the commencement
Eclogue
…by Mantuanus and Aeneas Silvius. Edmund Spenser was also inspired by Mantuan's eclogues, as well as by Virgil and Theocritus, when he composed the Shepheardes Calendar (1579), a series of twelve eclogues, one for each month of the year. Each is titled an Aegloga and contains for the most part dialogues by different…
Title page of The Shepheardes Calendar, circa 1571.
The first page of the Aprill Eclogue