单词 | homerist |
释义 | Homeristn. 1. An imitator or follower of Homer; a person who recites Homeric poems, a Homeric rhapsodist. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation of epic poetry > one who Homerist1599 rhapsodist1656 rhapsode1712 Homerid1828 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [noun] > admirer or imitator of specific poet Homerist1599 Homeriana1604 Ronsardian1697 Popean1730 Miltonian1748 Pindarist1781 Wordsworthian1812 Petrarchist1823 Byronist1830 papista1849 Goethian1850 Tennysonian1850 Shakespearolater1875 Ronsardist1877 Shelleyite1881 Browningitec1882 Byronian1883 Byronite1884 Shelleyan1886 Whitmanite1887 Keatsian1891 Spenserian1894 Omarian1897 Racinian1898 bardolater1903 Petrarchan1904 Burnsite1909 Thompsonian1913 Omarite1918 Burnsian1920 Shelleyist1934 Whitmanist1934 Dickinsonian1936 Poundian1950 Chattertonian1956 Whitmaniac1959 Whitmanian1977 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered iv. 15 You will be the Homerist of our time. 1694 W. Burnaby tr. Petronius Satyr (new ed.) 102 The Homerists ratled out Greek Verses, as, arrogantly enough, they were wont to do. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo x, in Wks. (1721) III. 292 The Homerists sat singing to bare Walls. 1786 R. Cumberland Observer II. xxxix. 96 The rhapsodists..were so constantly employed in repeating Homer's poems preferably to all others, that in time they were universally called Homerists. 1820 Q. Rev. July 408 We have no doubt that Virgil was often vexed in his days by a parallel with Homer, and that the Homerists often exulted over the Virgilians. 1842 J. A. St. John Hist. Manners & Customs Anc. Greece I. ii. x. 321 So much did recitations of Homer's works predominate over all others, that Rhapsodists and Homerists were often regarded as synonymous terms. 1913 A. B. Gough tr. L. Friedlander Rom. Life & Manners IV. 406 A wandering Homerist with a box full of costumes. 1998 D. Frankfurter Relig. Rom. Egypt ii. 58 The Serapia includes a comedian, two Homerists, dancers, and athletes. 2. A Homeric scholar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > study of Homeric poems > one who Homerist1695 Homerid1865 Homerologist1890 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. ix. 381 When I read..that this Poet flourish'd not long after Solomon's Days, I am apt to credit Casaubon and Grotius, and a Famous Homerist of our own, who all agree in this, that Homer borrow'd many of his..Sage Sayings or Proverbs from our Royal Author. 1792 A. Geddes tr. Homer 1st Bk. Iliad Pref. p. viii My version..will serve as a clavis or glossary to young Homerists. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. iv. i. 379 In no part of his treatment of the poems has that excellent Homerist..done better service. 1886 Athenæum 11 Sept. 331/2 The copious literature..poured forth by the new school of Homerists. 1917 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 38 406 Monro's eminence as an Homeric scholar might be thought to have been a recommendation in Mr. Gladstone's eyes, for Mr. Gladstone was a noted Homerist. 1999 V. M. Udwin Between Two Armies 13 No Homerist gives clearer expression to the assumptions of traditional literary scholarship than Bernard Knox. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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