The Latin poet Virgil wrote a series of poems called the
Georgics (from the Greek georgos, "farmer") on how
to manage a farm. Georgic poems, therefore, are concerned with
rural business. Unlike pastoral
poems, which celebrate leisure, georgic poems are about people
involved in labor plowing fields, keeping bees, that sort of
From the Guide to Literary Terms by Jack Lynch.
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