1821 Ld. Byron Let. 31 Aug. in (1901) V. 352 Your little envious knot of parson-poets may say what they please.
1902 6 77/2 There flourished,..in the provincial England of the Stuart era, a certain parson-poet named Robert Herrick.
1999 (Nexis) 26 Jan. 14 A South Devon house where a famous parson-poet kept a pet pig in the cellar is up for sale.