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Bard of Avon

noun

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616). Synonyms: Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakespeare, William Shakspere.

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... was, at the period in question, rather remarkable for the use of the figure called by the rhetoricians catachresis. The Bard of Avon may be quoted in justification of its adoption, when he writes of taking arms against a sea, and seeking a bubble in the mouth of a cannon. The Morning Post, in the year 1812, congratulated its readers upon having stripped off Cobbett's mask and discovered his cloven foot; ...

— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith

... dignified declamatory drama, was the greatest of the post-Shakespeare school. We may justly say post-Shakespeare, though Jonson was nearly contemporaneous with the Bard of Avon, because the influence of such a man clearly belongs to an age in which the freedom and romantic magnificence ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

Words linked to "Bard of Avon" : Shakspere, poet, playwright, Shakespeare, dramatist