The pastoral romance was written towards the close of the fourteenth century.

His reputation is based on a prose work, the Diana, a pastoral romance published about 1559.

His songs were all monophonic in the tradition of pastoral romance and courtly love; he also wrote religious songs.

There are similarities between this forest and the woodland settings of pastoral romances.

Lodge's novel is bound by the conventions of the pastoral romance.

As you've seen, Silvius resembles the shepherds of pastoral romances.

This passage could be a satirical comment on the conventions of pastoral romances.

These rules were as artificial as the conventions of love portrayed in pastoral romances.

They meet characters who belong to the most artificial of all worlds of fiction, the pastoral romance.

It is not like the world of Italian pastoral romance, not a country in which the longings of those bored with city life were realized.