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cyclic poet en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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