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idyll, idyl|ˈaɪdɪl, ɪd-|
Also 7 eidyl(l. See also idyllium.
[ad. L. īdyllium (ēdyllium), a. Gr. εἰδύλλιον a short descriptive poem, dim. of εἶδος form, picture. Cf. F. idylle. Now commonly with pronunc. (ɪd-). (See Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage (1926) 253, R. Bridges in S.P.E. Tract (1929) xxxii. 403, and A. C. Gimson Everyman's Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1969) 241.)]
1. A short poem, descriptive of some picturesque scene or incident, chiefly in rustic life. prose idyll, a prose composition treating subjects of the same kind in a poetic style. (and derivs.).
1601Holland Pliny II. 296 Those amatorious eidyls and eclogues of Theocritus among Greek Poets, of Catullus and Virgil among vs. 1658Phillips, Idyl, a kinde of Eclogue, or Pastoral Poem, such as was written by Theocritus, Moschus, and others. 1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 243 The descriptive parts of this idyll..are unsurpassable. 1859J. H. Stirling Crit. Ess., Tennyson (1868) 61 The Idyll or Idyl..is, on the whole, Tennyson's favourite form of rhythmical composition. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 306 The name of the Idyll sufficiently explains its nature. It is a little picture. Rustic or town life, legends of the gods, and passages of personal experience supply the idyllist with subjects. Generally there is a narrator, and in so far the Idyll is epic; its verse too is the hexameter. 1879World 16 Apr., An Idyl is..not necessarily concerning pastoral matters, though from the prevalence of such topics in the idyls of Theocritus, the general notion is that idyllic and pastoral are almost convertible terms. 1888Barrie (title) Auld Licht Idylls. [Prose.]
2. transf. An episode or a series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, and suitable for an idyll.
1841–4Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 164 The pairing of the birds is an idyll, not tedious as our idylls are. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. v. 296 Nausicaa, whose figure shines like a perfect idyll among the tragedies of the Odyssey.
3. Mus. ‘A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character’ (Cent. Dict.).
4. Comb. idyll-pastoral a., pastoral in subject and idyllic in form.
1849E. C. Otté tr. Humboldt's Cosmos II. 434 The artificial form of idyl-pastoral romances, and didactic poems. |