Lexicographical Neighbors of Legendized
Literary usage of Legendized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus by Francis Whiting Halsey (1912)
"... scenes he legendized, and consecrated for all time. Fit burial-place for the
author and the man; on the banks of his darling river—the trees he best ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... of perhaps the thirteenth century as a whole, but embodying verses written by
the real though legendized hero, about 550-615: viii. 27. ..."
3. History of American Literature by Leonidas Warren Payne (1919)
"Henry Biography (1916) succinctly summarizes the progress of the American short
story in saying that Irving legendized the short story, Poe standardized it, ..."
4. Edgar Allan Poe: How to Know Him by Charles Alphonso Smith (1921)
"Irving legendized the new type, making it a means of storing legendary material
in more permanent and attractive form. Hawthorne allegorized it, converting ..."