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Definition of Epicists
1. epicist [n] - See also: epicist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicists
Literary usage of Epicists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1853)
"He does no more than all schools have done, copy their own masters ; as the Greek
epicists and Virgil copied Homer ; as all succeeding Latin ..."
2. Miscellanies by Charles Kingsley (1860)
"He does 110 more than all schools have done, copy their own masters; as the Greek
epicists and Virgil copied Homer; as all succeeding Latin ..."
3. Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley (1880)
"He does no more than all schools have done, copy their own masters; as the Greek
epicists and Virgil copied Homer; as all succeeding Latin ..."
4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Fielding complains bitterly that the ancient epicists, with deities " always
ready at the writer's elbow," " could with greater ease have conveyed a hero ..."
5. Lectures on Poetry by John William Mackail (1911)
"Thus too Quintilian—though Quintilian was unknown in the age of Dante—uses not
of the tragedians nor of the epicists, ..."
6. Brazilian Literature by Isaac Goldberg (1922)
"From the name of the province—Minas Geraes— these poets have been grouped into
a so-called Mineira school, which includes the two epicists, Frei Jose de ..."
7. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"... and of epicists the titles of whose poems are lost, such as Ponticus, Macer,
Sabinus. Then, too, there are the ' little epics' ..."
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