Alexandrian Idylls 1 - David

In conversation with pastoral literature of the canon - from Theocritus and Hesiod through to the Romantics and Transcendentalists. This short work contains condensed lessons from those great works, and the author's own musings and engagement with life from the pastoral lens, picking up and utilizing the styles of those lauded authors.

The challenge to critics and literary scholars offers nuance in the great debate: Is this Pastoral?

*Original (stand-alone) chapter of a larger work (Alexandrian Idylls).