mythopoem
(ˈmɪθəʊpəʊɪm)
[f. mytho- + poem, after prec. words.]
A mythical poem. So ˌmythopoˈesis, the making or construction of myths. ˈmythopoet, a poetical writer of myths. ˌmythopoˈetic a. = mythopœic; so mythopoˈetical a. mythoˈpoetize v., intr. to produce myths. ˈmythopoetry, mythological poetry.
| 1882 Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 376 Here, for me at least, the *mythopoem of the lagoons was humanised; the spirit of the salt-water lakes had appeared to me. |
| 1882 Keary Outl. Prim. Belief 320 note 3 It is in keeping with the principles of *mythopoesis that Calypso's land..should be in the midst of the sea. |
| 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets Ser. ii. vi. (1876) 158 There is nothing dead, devoid of soul, in the world of this arch-*mythopoet [æschylus]. |
| 1880 Academy 26 June 470 The *mythopoetic faculty has already been busy with the name of one whose actual life was more strange than fiction itself. 1965 Philos. Rev. LXXIV. 548 Wheelwright is engaged not in metaphysical but in mythopoetic investigation. 1970 J. O. Love (title) Worlds in consciousness: mythopoetic thought in the novels of Virginia Woolf. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Apr. 381/2 This mythopoetic quality. |
| 1900 R. Fry in Monthly Rev. Dec. 152 In such periods the magnifying *mythopoetical effect, which for us comes only with time, takes place at once, and swells their contemporaries to heroic proportions. 1959 B. Bernardi Mugwe, a Failing Prophet iii. 52 It constitutes a typical instance of mythopoetical amalgamation. |
| 1893 Pall Mall Mag. II. 346 If we watch the process of *mythopoetising in our daily life. |
| 1869 Contemp. Rev. XII. 67 This costume..becomes his dominant token in subsequent *mythopoetry. 1878 Symonds Shelley v. 122 The strife is now removed into the region of abstractions, vivified by mythopoetry. |