bucolicum

Updated: May 2, 2025

As early as the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century we find a poem by Severus Sanctus Endelechius, variously entitled 'Carmen bucolicum de virtute signi crucis domini' or 'de mortibus boum. It is a hymn to the saint cross, and in it for the first time the pastoral suffered violence from the tyranny of the religious idea.

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England