单词 | elegiac poet |
释义 | > as lemmaselegiac poet 1. Designating a writer of elegies. Chiefly in elegiac poet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > lyric poet > elegiac poet elegiaca1586 elegiac poeta1586 elegiographer1623 elegiast1720 monodist1751 elegist1762 threnodist1827 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C3v The most notable [kinds of poets] bee the Heroick, Lirick, Tragick..Iambick, Elegiack... Some of these being termed..by the sorts of verses they liked best to write in. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xi. 20 There were an other sort [of poet], who..coueted to bemone their estates at large, & the perplexities of loue in a certain pitious verse called Elegie, and thence were called Eligiack. 1634 F. Hickes in tr. Lucian Certaine Sel. Dialogues sig. B2 His Fathers name was Lucius, his brothers Caius, who as he sayes, was an Elegiack Poet, and a Sooth-sayer. 1709 tr. L. E. Du Pin Universal Libr. Historians II. xxxiii. 103 He was son of Arienides, and Disciple of Evenus an Elegiack Poet [Fr. Poëte Elegiaque]. 1783 J. Pinkerton Select Sc. Ballads II. p. xi Virgil, who was born an elegiac poet, but never happened upon his proper province, has in pastoral only displayed excellent skill. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) x. 319 It is the theme of the elegiac poet, to show the virtues of sorrow. 1888 Spectator 30 June 875/2 Matthew Arnold..the greatest elegiac poet of our generation. 1941 Poetry June 155 Gregory seems happiest as an elegiac poet, celebrating, with his grieving rhetoric, the lost places, the lost persons, the lost world of his inheritance. 2008 C. A. Faraone Stanzaic Archit. of Early Greek Elegy ii. 42 The early elegiac poet could deploy a single elegiac stanza in a variety of ways. < as lemmas |
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