arch-poet

The ollamh (ollav), or arch-poet, who was the highest dignitary among the poets, and whose training lasted for some twelve years, was obliged to learn two hundred and fifty of these prime sagas and one hundred secondary ones.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

We are told that this book was written about 1450 by the arch-poet Kalyana Mull, [FN#404] that lithographed copies have been printed by hundreds of thousands, that the book is in the hands of almost every one "throughout the nearer East," and also that it is "an ethnological treasure, which tells us as much of Hindu human nature as The Thousand Nights and a Night of Arab manners and customs in the cinquecento."

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

We are told that this book was written about 1450 by the arch-poet

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

The master's chief work in the present room is 417, R. wall, Apotheosis of Homer, a ceiling composition in which the arch-poet, laurel-crowned, has at his footstool seated figures symbolising the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_, while the most famous poets and philosophers of the ages are grouped below him.

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

But Meath refused to recognise him, and placed its government in commission, in the hands of Con O'Lochan, the arch-poet, and Corcran, the priest, already more than once mentioned.

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

But Meath refused to recognise him, and placed its government in commission, in the hands of Con O'Lochan, the arch-poet, and Corcran, the priest, already more than once mentioned.

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

We are told that this book was written about 1450 by the arch-poet Kalyana Mull,404 that lithographed copies have been printed by hundreds of thousands, that the book is in the hands of almost every one “throughout the nearer East,” and also that it is “an ethnological treasure, which tells us as much of Hindu human nature as The Thousand Nights and a Night of

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

"so exceedingly outrageous," that they irreverently stript O'Daly, arch-poet of Ireland, "of all his clothes."

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

VI, xiv) the Gaulish druids spent twenty years in studying and learned a great number of verses, but Irish literature tells us what the arch-poet, probably the counterpart of the Gaulish druid, actually did learn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913