idyllistn.
/ˈɪdl̩ɪst/, /ˈɪdɪlɪst/, /ˈʌɪdl̩ɪst/, /ˈʌɪdɪlɪst/, U.S. /ˈaɪdl̩əst/ A writer of idylls; an idyllic poet.
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1799 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 243 I should not think the English idyllist wise, who made himself a character in such a scene.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 306 The name of the Idyll sufficiently explains its nature. It is a little picture. Rustic or town life, legends of the gods, and passages of personal experience supply the idyllist with subjects. Generally there is a narrator, and in so far the Idyll is epic; its verse too is the hexameter.
1886 Athenæum 6 Feb. 207/2 Ready to measure himself with the idylist of another age.
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