aeclogues

Updated: April 30, 2025

The name is taken, as you will remember, from John Skelton's poem. Spenser called his poems Aeclogues, from a Greek word meaning Goatherds' Tales, "Though indeed few goatherds have to do herein." He dedicated them to Sir Philip Sidney as "the president of noblesse and of chivalrie."

H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall - English Literature for Boys and Girls