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What is an idyll?

What is an idyll? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
  2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
  3. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
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Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
But eighteen months, a storybook wedding and an adorable but accidental baby later, Kitty's life isn't the perfect idyll she thought it would be.
Bring along a baguette and a bottle of vin blanc and join the judge for an idyll in the French countryside.
Will the proposed financial and lifestyle benefits prove enough to tempt workers to a rural idyll?
It was quite clear that the garden he was describing was an English idyll sprouting cow parsley, chestnut trees and long green grass.
He was just 40, and in this rural idyll he began to paint landscapes filled with lush, exuberant nature.

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