Editing Idyll (section)

{{Short description|Short poem}}
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An '''idyll''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|d|ɪ|l}}, {{IPAc-en|ukalso|ˈ|ɪ|d|ɪ|l}}; {{ety|el|''εἰδύλλιον'' (eidullion)|short poem}}; occasionally spelled ''idyl'' in [[American English]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Chambers Dictionary|publisher=Chambers|year=2003|isbn=0-550-10105-5|edition=9th|chapter=idyll}}</ref><ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|idyll}}</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dei%29du%2Fllion εἰδύλλιον], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> is a short [[poem]], descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of [[Theocritus]]'s short [[pastoral]] poems, the '''''Idylls''''' (Εἰδύλλια).

Unlike [[Homer]], Theocritus did not engage in heroes and warfare. His idylls are limited to a small intimate world, and describe scenes from everyday life. Later imitators include the Roman poets [[Virgil]] and [[Catullus]], Italian poets [[Torquato Tasso]], [[Sannazaro]] and [[Leopardi]], the English poet [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] (''[[Idylls of the King]]''), and Nietzsche's ''[[Idylls from Messina]]''. [[Goethe]] called his poem ''[[Hermann and Dorothea]]''—which [[Schiller]] considered the very climax in Goethe's production—an idyll.<ref>Gjert Vestrheim: "Hellas som ideal", ''Antikken i ettertiden'' (s. 170-2), edited by Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 2009, {{ISBN|978-82-15-01482-1}}</ref>