cyclic poet
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]So called because keeping within the circle of a single subject.
Noun
[edit]cyclic poet (plural cyclic poets)
- (historical) Any of certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote only about the Trojan war and its heroes.
- (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