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

He is neither a narrator, nor an allegorist.

From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler