Arcadia

Arcadia,
a series of verse eclogues connected by prose narrative, published 1504 by Sannazar , occupied with the loves, laments, and other doings of various shepherds in Arcadia. The work, which was immensely popular, was a link between the Pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil and those of Montemayor , Sidney , Spenser , and later writers.