idyllist

American  

[ahyd-l-ist] / ˈaɪd l ɪst /

Or idylist

noun

1. a writer of idylls.

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idyllist British  

/ ˈɪdɪlɪst /

noun

1. a writer of idylls

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Etymology

Origin of idyllist

First recorded in 1790–1800; idyll + -ist

Example Sentences

Had he written only "Hermann and Dorothea," the sweetest idyllist; if only the "Märchen," the subtlest of allegorists.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

Florian imitated Salomon Gessner, the Swiss idyllist, and his style has all the artificial delicacy and sentimentality of the Gessnerian school.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

From an idyllist and elegist we find him suddenly transformed into an unsparing master of poetical satire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

This is that of Theocritus, a Sicilian idyllist, who wrote at Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

But he was no idyllist, though he could be tender as Mme.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor