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Definition of Fantasists
1. fantasist [n] - See also: fantasist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fantasists
Literary usage of Fantasists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... that it approaches the merit of fantasists in other kinds of the former group,
like Beddoes and Darley, to far too great an extent on echoes. ..."
2. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys (1915)
"... and feminists and fantasists who crowded upon him, the great, terrible egoist
strikes his last blow! No one can read Samson Agonistes without being ..."
3. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1904)
"... admiration for philosophical poets, like Fitzgerald and Browning, for fantasists
like our American Poe, for society troubadours, like Austin Dob- son. ..."
4. The Short-story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development by Brander Matthews (1907)
"... men and women, humorists and sentimentalists, fantasists and realists,
Northerners and Southerners, differing in sincerity and differing in skill. ..."
5. Music (1895)
"fantasists of the profession, in the first line of which we rank the dwarf from
the quartier Montparnasse, scarcely moi-e than a yard high, who plays the ..."