mythopoetn.
/ˈmɪθə(ʊ)ˌpəʊᵻt/, U.S. /ˈmɪθəˌpoʊət/ A writer of mythic poetry; a mythopoeic writer.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > poetical writer of myths
mythopoet1876
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths > one who
mythologer1604
mythologist1608
mythologizer1641
mythographer1660
myth-maker1856
mythopoeist1873
mythopoet1876
mythograph1891
1876 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets 2nd Ser. vi. 158 There is nothing dead, devoid of soul, in the world of this arch-mythopoet [sc. Aeschylus].
1959 H. Levin in Dædalus Spring 228 The Germans..have tended to be a nation of mythopoets or—at least—mythophiles; whereas..the French are a nation of mythoclasts.
1972 R. Patai Myth & Mod. Man ii. 48 A few mythologists cross over into the realm of mythmaking,..cease being mythologists, recorders, and become mythopoets, makers of new myths.
1988 Black Amer. Lit. Forum 22 659 When a child is born in the prison the mythopoet at once reflects sadly ‘that the birth has come in the wrong season—it ought to be Spring’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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