Meanings of professional reciter in английском

RHAPSODIST, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks

Or, the entertainment might be varied by engaging a good professional reciter to reproduce literary gems, comic or otherwise.

Leaf rejects this theory, while supposing that there were schools for professional reciters.

As poetry it is monotonous, without sense of proportion, padded to facilitate memorisation by professional reciters, and unadorned by figure, fancy, or imagination.