poet¹ Definition
poet (pō′ət)
noun
- a person who writes poems or verses
- a person who displays imaginative power and beauty of thought, language, etc.
Etymology: ME < OFr poete < L poeta < Gr poiētēs, one who makes, poet < poiein, to make: see poem
poet² Definition
poet
- poetic
- poetical
- poetry
poet Synonyms
poet
n.
Major poets include --- British: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Robert (Bobbie) Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron (George Gordon), John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Dylan Thomas; American: Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, James Schuyler, Sylvia Plath; Classical Greek: Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; Latin: Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Juvenal; Italian: Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, Gabriele d'Annunzio; French: Voltaire, François Villon, Jean de La Fontaine, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Guillaume Apollinaire; Spanish: St. John of the Cross, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda; Portuguese: Luis Vaz de Camoëns; German: Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht; Russian: Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovski, Boris Pasternak, Yevgeni Yevtushenko.
poet Usage Examples
Converse of object
- inspire: It is assumed that the glass dealer's tragedy inspired the great poet.
- publish: All three Fellows in English write poetry themselves, and two are published poets.
- marry: Mary later married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.
- bud: Budding Poets at Rush Green Primary School ( 31/05/2006 ) Pupils from Rush Green Primary School won their first ever poetry competition.
- translate: She writes poems, novels and children's stories and has translated poets such as John Ashbery and Margaret Atwood into Finnish.
- quote: He quotes lyric poets as often as he does Beckett.
Preposition: in
residence: In 2001 he was poet in residence at a pottery in Sedgefield.
Adjective modifier
- romantic: Consider, for example, the ballads of some of the Romantic poets.
- celebrated: The school runs a core program using celebrated poets, including reading courses and special events with visiting poets.
- aspiring: As an aspiring poet, Rossetti wished to develop the links between Romantic poetry and art.
- Gaelic: Lastly and importantly, there is the behind-the-scenes contribution of Gaelic poets and women poets.
- famous: Among them was John Donne, the famous poet, in 1601.
- award-winning: Ayin Adams - Poetry, films, writings and music from award-winning poet.
Modifies a noun
laureate: The historic and current roles of poet laureates is examined in a number of countries.
Noun used with modifier
- haiku: A haiku poet, however, refers, rather than describes.
- lyric: It was the idiom of lyric poets in every Peninsular region except Catalonia.
- dialect: Barnes is chiefly remembered as the Dorset dialect poet.
- eighteenth-century: Department of English PhD Research: Anna Seward, the eighteenth-century poet.
- performance: Jude Simpson, for whom the words ' comic performance poet ' don't quite suffice.
- beat: The book will be introduced by long-time Ginsberg collaborator Steven Taylor and prefaced by respected beat poet David Meltzer.
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