| 单词 | cyclic poet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCyclic poet a. Of or belonging to a cycle of mythic and heroic story: see cycle n.1 6 Cyclic poet: one of the writers of the ‘Epic cycle’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [adjective] > cycle cyclica1822 cyclical1841 cyclian1847 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > epic or heroic poet > poet of epic cycle circlera1637 Cyclic poeta1822 a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 20 They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men. 1840 G. C. Lewis tr. K. O. Müller Hist. Lit. Anc. Greece I. vi. 64 This class of [later] epic poets is called the Cyclic, from their constant endeavour to connect their poems with those of Homer, so that the whole should form a great cycle. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) i. 11 The Cyclic Poems, which aimed at completing the circle of events with which they deal. < as lemmas |
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