Definition of "idyls" [idyls]

• Plural form of idyl. (noun)

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• "And in most of these "idyls" there emerges a trait always implicit in Browning but only distinctly apparent in this last decade -- the ironical contrasts between the hidden deeps of a man's soul and the assumptions or speculations of his neighbours about it."
• "Browning's "idyls" are studies in life's moments of stress and strain, not in its secluded pleasances and verdurous wooded ways."
• "It is a bit like the difference between the way 18th century aristocrats would play at being shepherds and shepherdesses in the summer such pastoral idyls being idyls of peace and contentment to an even greater universal extent than the ocean and what it actually is like to be a shepherd in autumn, winter and spring."