Pastoral and Rustic Poetry

Poems that picture country life and the shepherd's world, including the pastoral, the idyll, the eclogue and the piscatorial eclogue that puts fishermen at sea in place of shepherds in the fields. The tradition runs from the Greek poet Theocritus through Virgil and the Renaissance Italian poets to English verse. A form belongs here when its cited article describes it as a poem on a pastoral or rustic subject, or as a variation on the pastoral. It excludes poems about cities, courts and battles.