Bard

Bard

In medieval Gaelic and British culture a bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

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Famous quotes containing the word bard:

    The bard must be with good intent
    no more his, but hers;
    must throw away his pen and paint,
    kneel with worshippers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A bard whom there were none to praise,
    And very few to read.
    Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)

    You feel you could pucker up and blow away the miles between 49 Bard Road [Brixton] and that apartment in New York where I could be tomorrow morning, if the apartment still existed, if Peregrine still existed, if the past weren’t deeper than the sea, more difficult to cross.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)