bard
Heroic tale teller
A bard is a poet, especially one who composes verse in traditional or elevated style.
The word evokes ancient Celtic poets who recited heroic tales and praised warriors.
Today it often carries a whiff of grandeur or irony: He fancied himself a bard of the suburbs.
Shakespeare is called the Bard of Avon, or simply the Bard.
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- meterDevice that measures usage
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
ode · elegy · ballad · couplet · quatrain · iamb · trochee · lyric
Ancient Greek epic composer
- odysseyExtended adventurous journey
- sagaExtended heroic narrative
- heroicExceptionally brave and noble
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
legend · recitation · dactylic · hexameter · invocation · muse · catalogue · epithet
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- jongleurMedieval wandering entertainer
- balladeerSinger of narrative songs
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
- harpPlucked orchestral strings
serenade · courtly · wandering · itinerant · entertainer · performer · singer · storyteller
Ancient Celtic priest-scholar
- EisteddfodWelsh arts and performance festival
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
- WelshOf a Celtic nation
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · ode · elegy · ballad · couplet · quatrain · iamb · trochee · lyric · composition
Homer
Ancient Greek epic composer
mythology · legend · recitation · dactylic · hexameter · invocation · muse · catalogue · epithet · kenning
troubadour
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- jongleurMedieval wandering entertainer
- balladeerSinger of narrative songs
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
harp · serenade · courtly · wandering · itinerant · entertainer · performer · singer · storyteller · chanson
druid
Ancient Celtic priest-scholar
- EisteddfodWelsh arts and performance festival
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
- BretonBrittany's Celtic language
playwright
Author of stage dramas
- StratfordEnglish market town, Warwickshire
- AvonEnglish river or cosmetics company
- GlobeFamous Elizabethan theatre
Elizabethan · soliloquy · folio · sonnet · comedy · tragedy · history · Will · Swan · quarto
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- Celtic LoreFenian Cycle, Brigid, banshee, Cormac, Rhiannon
- Romantic PoetryWordsworth, Keats, William Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
- fantasywizard, witch, magic, dragon, elf
- musicmusic, song, songs, singing, singer
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
bardnovelist
Writer of prose narratives
prose writer · essayist · journalist · technical writer · copywriter
bardaudience
Gathered viewers collectively
listener · reader · spectator · critic · philistine
bardphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
peasant · laborer · tradesman · merchant · bureaucrat
- The BardStratford's legendary dramatist
- Bard of AvonEpithet for famous playwright
- medieval bardWandering musician-poet of antiquity