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metrist|ˈmɛtrɪst|
[ad. med.L. metrista, f. metrum metre n.1: see -ist.]
a. A metrical writer.
b. One who is skilled in metrical composition; an adept in the handling of metre.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 223 In Lating toung ane metrost [sic] wes he. 1550Bale Image Both Ch. ii. h j b, Thomas smith..wyth such other blind Popish poetes and dirtye metristes. 1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 378 There are not five metrists in the kingdom to whom I could..have spoken so plainly. 1864Knight Passages Work. Life I. viii. 289 A very singular..poet, quite set apart from the troop of every-day metrists. 1875Lowell Spenser Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 328 Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. 1894R. C. Jebb in A. W. Ward Eng. Poets IV. 763 As a metrist he [Tennyson] is the creator of a new blank verse, different both from the Elizabethan and the Miltonic. |