Question

Which of the following would be considered a "pastoral"?

The Odyssey
Lycidus
The Canterbury Tales
The Aeneid

Answer 1

Lycidas

Step-by-step explanation:

John Milton's "Lycidas," considered the most famous pastoral elegy, mourns the death of the poet's good friend Edward King. In the 17th century, John Donne, a contemporary of Milton's, explored the genre further and addressed matters of human love, which to his metaphysically inclined mind often resembled death.