Editing Bard (section)

==Literature==
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[[File:Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825, object 54, The Voice of the Ancient Bard (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg|thumb|upright|William Blake's hand painted engraving of his poem "[[The Voice of the Ancient Bard]]" in the ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience]]'']]

From its frequent use in romanticism, 'The Bard' became attached as a title to various poets
* 'The Bard of Armagh' is [[Martin Hearty]]
* 'The Bard of Avon,' 'The Immortal Bard' or (in England) simply 'The Bard' is [[William Shakespeare]]
* 'The Bard of Ayrshire' (or in Scotland, simply 'The Bard') is [[Robert Burns]]
* 'The Bard of Bengal' is [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
* 'The Bard of Olney' is [[William Cowper]]
* 'The Bard of Rydal Mount' is [[William Wordsworth]]
* 'The Bard of Salford' is [[John Cooper Clarke]]
* 'The Bard of Twickenham' is [[Alexander Pope]]
* Australian [[bush poet]]s such as [[Henry Lawson]] and [[Banjo Paterson]] are referred to as 'bush bards'
* [[Bob Dylan]], [[Jim MacCool]] and the band [[Blind Guardian]] have also been termed 'bards'