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Allegorist   Listen
noun
Allegorist  n.  One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.






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"Allegorist" Quotes from Famous Books



... believe that no human ingenuity could produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing signified should be exactly preserved. Certainly no writer, ancient or modern, has yet achieved the adventure. The best thing, on the whole, that an allegorist can do, is to present to his readers a succession of analogies, each of which may separately be striking and happy, without looking very nicely to see whether they harmonise with each other. This Bunyan has done; and, though a minute ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay



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