Idyll
An idyll (poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).
Unlike
Schiller considered the very climax in Goethe's production—an idyll.[4]
Terminology
The term is used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life such as
Antoinette Deshoulières.[5]
In the visual arts, an idyll is a painting depicting the same sort of subject matter to be found in idyllic poetry, often with rural or peasant life as its central theme. One of the earliest examples is the early 15th century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.[6] The genre was particularly popular in English paintings of the Victorian era.[7]
See also
- Arcadia (utopia)
- Et in Arcadia ego
- Pastoral
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
- William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
- Iyashikei
References
- ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
- ^ "idyll". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.
- ^ εἰδύλλιον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ISBN 978-82-15-01482-1
- ISBN 0-520-21414-5
- ISBN 3-8228-2100-4
- ISBN 0-415-03394-2
Further reading
- Gosse, Edmund (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 291. This contains a somewhat opinionated and selective view of the development of the form.
External links
The dictionary definition of idyll at Wiktionary
