Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)
CHAPTER XX.
_THE IDYLLISTS._
Theocritus: his Life.--The Canon of his Poems.--The Meaning of the Word Idyl.--Bucolic Poetry in Greece, Rome, Modern Europe.--The Scenery of Theocritus.--Relation of Southern Nature to Greek Mythology and Greek Art.--Rustic Life and Superstitions.--Feeling for Pure Nature in Theocritus.--How Distinguished from the same Feeling in Modern Poets.--Galatea.--Pharmaceutria.--Hylas.--Greek Chivalry.--The Dioscuri.--Thalysia.--Bion.--The Lament for Adonis.--Moschus.--Europa.--Megara.--Lament for Bion.--The Debts of Modern Poets to the Idyllists. Page 240