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Definition of Idylists
1. idylist [n] - See also: idylist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idylists
Literary usage of Idylists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Literature by Lafcadio Hearn (1917)
"IONICA idylists. Perhaps I had better say something too, about the word idyl,
... This was exactly what the Greek idylists did,—that is, the best of them. ..."
2. Books and Habits by Lafcadio Hearn (1921)
"the Greek idylists did,—that is, the best of them. ... Well, after this disgression,
to return to the subject of Theocritus, the greatest of the idylists. ..."
3. Books and Habits by Lafcadio Hearn (1921)
"the Greek idylists did,—that is, the best of them. ... Well, after this disgression,
to return to the subject of Theocritus, the greatest of the idylists. ..."
4. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1903)
"... 1891 A2; In Gold and S.lver, 1892 A2; idylists of the Country-Side, Being Sx
Commentaries Concerning Some of Those Who Have Apostroph.zed the Joys of ..."
5. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"He was early enamoured of the Sicilian idylists. It was a dream that never quite
deserted him, to make "a complete, metrical, English version of the idyls ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... with little effect, by idylists, among the " Scottish peasantry " and elsewhere)
who, in the school of practice, have learned not only skill of hand, ..."
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