Pastoral literature

didactic poem in 828 lines of dactylic hexameter by Hesiod in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in agriculture

thumb|upright=1.5|The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus The Eclogues (; , ), also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

thumb|Obverse and reverse|Reverse of a commemorative 50 [[Moldovan lei coin dedicated to Miorița|alt=A coin face featuring a shepherd sitting on the ground playing a flute. A sheep looks up to a round astral object in the sky. A curved line on the background suggests a mountain range. The word MIORIȚA in an archaic print type follows the curve of the coin edge.]] "Miorița" (ad. mioriță, lit. 'The Little Ewe Lamb'), also transliterated as "Mioritza", is an old Romanian pastoral ballad considered to be one of the most important pieces of Romanian folklore. It has numerous versions with quite dif

thumb|right '''''L'Astrée''''' is a pastoral novel by Honoré d'Urfé, published between 1607 and 1627.

thumb|right|261x261px|Title-page of a 1789 edition of Aminta printed at Parma Aminta is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, performed during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble persons living at the Court, who could understand subtle allusions the poet made to that style of life, in contrast with the life of shepherds, represented in an idyllic way.

thumb|Lycidas by James Havard Thomas, bronze cast in collections of [[Aberdeen Art Gallery and Tate Britain]]

thumb|Pieter van der Werff, Granida and Daifilo (1711)|235x235px Granida is a pastoral play by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, written 1603–1605 and published in 1615.

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