cyclic poet

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English

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Etymology

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So called because keeping within the circle of a single subject.

Noun

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cyclic poet (plural cyclic poets)

  1. (historical) Any of certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote only about the Trojan war and its heroes.
  2. (by extension) Any of a coterie of poets writing on one subject.
    • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
      The Homer of this race of cyclic poets was to be an Italian