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Definition of Idyllists
1. idyllist [n] - See also: idyllist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idyllists
Literary usage of Idyllists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"Next to the idyllists, we have to search the Greek Anthology at large for love
embodiments. Made up of short poems, called Epigrams, it embraces many themes ..."
2. The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Raoul Dubois. [Also The by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886)
"... and Roman Eclogue —The Idyllic Shepherds — Their Immorality— A Protest — Nature
of the Idyl — Few Landscape Pictures in the great idyllists — Method of ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"But the novelists or idyllists which you will), like the Roman legions long before
them, cannot be got to cross the Grampians. ..."
4. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"What has been the practice of the great idyllists ? Does a certain degree of
artificiality enhance the idyllic effect? Compare the 1 Dresden Shepherdess. ..."
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