Bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.With the decline of a living bardic tradition in the modern period, the term has loosened to mean a generic minstrel or author (especially a famous one). For example, William Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore are respectively known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal". In 16th-century Scotland, it turned into a derogatory term for an itinerant musician; nonetheless it was later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Provided by Wikipedia
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by Weedonian bard
Published 1786
Published 1786
Printed and sold by T. Dicey and Co. Sold also by Lacy, and Burnham, at Northampton; Cullingworth, at Daventry; Clay, at Rugby; and Evans, Pater-noster-Row, Lonodn
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by Bard, Samuel
Published 1771
Published 1771
Printed by S. Inslee, and A. Car, at the new printing-office in Beaver-Street
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by Borisyuk, Alla, Ermentrout, G. Bard, Friedman, Avner, Terman, David H.
Published 2005
Published 2005
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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