georgic
/ˈdʒɔːdʒɪk
/noun
1A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics.English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive....
- Newbery published his first collection of verse, Poems on Several Occasions, which included a blank-verse georgic in two books, ‘The Hop-Garden’, and lighter verse.
- Bohls's comments on the eighteenth-century georgic are important and provide links to earlier essays in the volume.
1.1 (Georgics) The title of a poetic treatise by Virgil.
adjective literary
Rustic; pastoral.Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly Virgilian sense of the extreme volatility of the labor of imperial regeneration....
- A full-length study of georgic poetry in colonial and early United States literature remains to be written.
- Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest.
Origin
Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos 'farmer'.