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Definition of Idylist
1. a writer of idyls [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idylist
Literary usage of Idylist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Greek Poetry by John William Mackail (1911)
"And so, while he is properly speaking an idylist, and while half of his extant
poetry is not pastoral at all, it is as a pastoral poet, as the first and ..."
2. The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part by Thomas Bird Mosher, John Keats (1899)
"... idylist of the Gutter," Under tht Microscope leaves no shadow of a doubt.
Besides a faithful reprint of the text some very interesting collateral matter ..."
3. The Art of the Uffizi Palace and the Florence Academy by Charles Christian Heyl (1912)
"He has been characterized aptly as an emancipator, — a rejector of conventionality, —
an idylist. All these he was, and more. An individuality rare indeed, ..."
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