单词 | mythopoet |
释义 | mythopoetn. A writer of mythic poetry; a mythopoeic writer. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1876 |
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