Chinese name: Te Aucry Toth Birthplace: Sicily Occupation: The main achievements of western pastoral (pastoral poetry) people: Te Aucry Toth, the founder of western pastoral (pastoral poetry) and other pastoral poets, may be the only pastoral poet with innovative thinking. He further perfected pastoral poetry, so that later poets would think of the name of Te Aucry Toth when talking about pastoral poetry, and closely linked his name with pastoral poetry, just like Pindar and ode. Pastoral poetry, as its name implies, is a poem describing the life of herders, their love, their thoughts and the beautiful natural scenery of their residence. In Te Aucry Toth's works, shepherds talk elegantly and sing beautifully, and their lives are full of poetry and painting. So later critics can't help wondering: How can those vulgar shepherds have such delicate language and such delicate feelings? However, we know that those beautiful rural folk songs were created by working people. Their imaginations are rich, and their songs are vivid in language and beautiful in rhythm, just like the sounds of nature. This is an indisputable fact. Under the blue sky in Sicily, those herders graze on the green hills. They sang beautiful songs, played beautiful flutes and lived a carefree life. It is this picturesque life that inspired Te Aucry Toth's creation. It is from this real and beautiful life that he absorbed all kinds of nutrition and wrote an idyllic poem that everyone praised. Because he is good at using various complex artistic forms to ponder his original materials, he has also become the most outstanding poet. He became an excellent and sincere poet because of the authenticity of his materials and the life scenes of those simple shepherds. His country poems are his best works. When he turned from pastoral poetry to traditional epic, he was no longer an idyllic poet in Sicily, but a scroll poet in Alexandria. There are 30 other pastoral poems by Te Aucry Toth, with 27,065,438+0 lines, and most of them have survived, which has a great influence on western poetry. Since Virgil, through the inheritance and creation of great poets such as Spencer, Milton, Tennyson and Arnold, pastoral poetry has become an immortal poetic tradition in western literature, just as pastoral poetry has become a model of poetry handed down from generation to generation in China literature. For thousands of years, whenever western poets encounter setbacks or hardships in real life and want to get rid of palaces and cities and breathe the simple air in the countryside, they will draw inspiration from Te Aucry Toth and Virgil. Just as in the same situation, China poets will go to Tao Qian or Wang Wei for comfort and inner peace.