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n. A writer of poems.

n. One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical: "[the naturalist John Burroughs] was the bard of the bird feeder, the poet of the small and homey” ( Bill McKibben).

n. A person who writes poems.

n. One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

n. One who composes or indites a poem: an author of metrical compositions.

n. One skilled in the art of making poetry, or of metrical composition; one distinguished by the possession of poetic faculties or susceptibilities; one endowed with the gift and power of imaginative invention and creation attended by corresponding eloquence of expression, commonly but not necessarily in a metrical form.

n. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

"POOR MALONE! if he had ever heard the old adage, that “_none but a poet should edit a poet_,” he would have saved his midnight oil, and solicited a ray from"

prosaist   

author    writer   

poet's cassia    poet laureate   

Hughes    stephane mallarme    louis charles alfred de musset    calderon    Wyatt    elizabeth barrett browning    luis de gongora y argote    Lowell    ben jonson    Meredith   

maker    epopœist    epopoeist    Parnassian    versifier    verseman    bard    poetaster    rimer    rhymer   

writer    scholar    hero    poetry    painter    gentleman    teacher    genius    priest    lover