pastoral

adjective

• 1(of land) used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle:scattered pastoral farms
• associated with country life:the view was pastoral, with rolling fields and grazing sheep
• (of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.

• 2(in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance:pastoral and doctrinal issues clergy doing pastoral work
• relating to or denoting a teacher’s responsibility for the general well-being of pupils or students:the pastoral care of boarders

noun

• a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life: the story, though a pastoral, has an actual connection with the life of agricultural labour