allegorist

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In an interview that Baldwin gave with Quincy Troupe toward the end of his life, he said that Toni was an allegorist, but that’s not really true.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016

Erró, the Icelandic painter who has been friends with Mr. Rosenquist since the two met in New York in the early 1960s, would instead be a late-medieval religious allegorist.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power of her art.

From Time Magazine Archive

That the great allegorist was not the author of Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble is perfectly clear, not only that the style is very different, but from the author being known.

From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George