Rondeliern.
/ˌrɒndəˈlɪə/, U.S. /ˌrɑndəˈlɪ(ə)r/ Somewhat depreciative.
A person who composes rondels; spec. any of a group of poets of the 1870s and 1880s who experimented with complex stanza forms based on the medieval French rondeau.Coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Rondelier poets included Austin Dobson, Andrew Lang, and W. E. Henley. Cf. roundel n. 11, roundeleer n.
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1878 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 49 I am very glad to hear the Rondeliers have come to see the beauty of your poetry.
1953 J. K. Robinson in PMLA 53 751 Still another member of the ‘Rondelier’ set, William Ernest Henley. [Note] Hopkins gave the group this name.
1958 A. Heuser Shaping Vision of G. M. Hopkins iv. xv. 95 In verse there was a double weakening: the blight of archaic diction (often pseudo-Elizabethan) and the effeminacy of exotic forms (French verse forms of the rondeliers).
1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. v. 132 The ‘Rondeliers’, the little group of revivalists..who kept the air humming in the 1870s and 1880s with ballades, and triolets and villanelles.
2000 P.-E. Philipp in A. Lang Compl. Poems II. 7 At Oxford he was associated with the Rondelier group of poets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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