单词 | rhapsode |
释义 | rhapsoden. 1. Ancient Greek History. = rhapsodist n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation of epic poetry > one who Homerist1599 rhapsodist1656 rhapsode1712 Homerid1828 1712 J. Ozell tr. A. Dacier in tr. Homer Iliad I. 17 The Homerides are not the Descendents of Homer, but Rhapsodes, that is, Men who recited his Verses in publick Assemblies. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhapsodi Cuper informs us, that the Rhapsodi were cloath'd in red when they sung the Iliad; and in blue when they sung the Odyssee. 1834 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets (ed. 2) 95 These rhapsodes were indigent persons, who gained their livelihood by reciting the Homeric poetry. 1852 R. W. Browne Hist. Classical Lit. i. vii. 91 Those who arranged and set in order these separate poems, whether we call them Rhapsodi or Diasceuastæ, must have possessed..exquisite skill and judgment. 1907 Classical Q. July 135 The rhapsode, Socrates says, should also interpret his poet. 1958 Times 28 Aug. 11/4 The invention of writing..made a greater uniformity of poetic treatment possible and allowed one poet to provide a text which a team of rhapsodes recited. 2005 A. Bennett Author ii. 34 The task of later performers or rhapsodes is not only to retell the poem and to represent the speech of the characters within it, but in fact to impersonate the early poet as well. 2. gen. A reciter of poems; = rhapsodist n. 2b. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > one who sayer?a1400 rhapsodist1690 rhapsode1867 poetry reader1930 toaster1974 1867 A. C. Swinburne in Every Sat. 27 July 116/2 There has been since Chaucer no second teller of tales, no second rhapsode comparable to the first, till the advent of this one. 1989 G. Steiner Real Presences iii. v. 211 The trope of the unconscious,..the mantic breath of strangeness which speaks through the rhapsode. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1712 |
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