poetn.
/ˈpəʊᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpoʊət/ 1. A person who composes poetry; a writer of a poem or poems; one who writes in verse.Recorded earliest in poet saw n. at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun]
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poeta1382
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sayer?a1400
makerc1460
metrician?a1475
metrist?1545
singer1560
swannetc1560
songster1584
muse1596
Castalianist1607
metre-maker1611
versificator1611
swan1613
versemaker1647
verseman1652
Parnassian1658
bard1667
factist1676
poetic1687
minstrel1718
shaper1816
a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vi. 15 We wryten pasemele poyet sawez.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xvii. 28 As and summe of ȝoure poetis seiden, Sotheli we ben and the kynde of him.
a1390 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 3650 Who so wole heere it in a lenger wise, Redeth the grete poete of Ytaille That highte Dant.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 8531 (MED) Homer þe poet [v.r. poete]..Liued in þis king dauid lijf.
J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 2197 (MED) Ion Lydgate..Hys bokys endytyd with termys off retoryk..hys contynwauns made hym both a poyet and a clerk.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 680/23 Poeta, a poyte.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Titus i. 12 Won..which was a poyet of their owne.
1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. viii. 2 Skorner of poitis and sklanderus knaif!
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 146 In Fez there are diuers most excellent poets, which make verses in thair owne mother toong.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 47 Shakespeare..was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1730) I. 109 Those flashy fellows, your Covent Garden poets.
1765 T. Gray Shakespeare in Corr. Gray & W. Mason (1853) 339 6 Fumbling baronets, and poets small.
1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 30 The poets have not all avoided the hiatus with equal care.
1876 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets 281 She [sc. Miss Rossetti] is a poet of a profound and serious cast.
1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 15/1 The greatest names are still those of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, both of whom are poets only in their spare time.
1989 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics 29 86 Individual poets' struggle with the artistic tradition..produces their specific poems.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 10/3 The world in which the young Cocteau was hailed as a significant poet preserved a fin-de-siècle decadence well into the new century.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun]
bookerOE
writerOE
makerc1350
authora1382
inditera1387
pena1398
poetc1400
bookmakera1425
ditera1425
compilera1500
compositor?1533
book writer1565
penner1568
authorizera1579
bookwright1583
scribe1584
epistler1592
penman1592
scriptora1600
composer1603
book-breeder1605
comprisor?1623
volumist1641
scrivenera1660
literatist1660
knight of the quill1692
belletrist1816
scriever1825
creative writer1854
penworker1876
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 130 (MED) Plato þe poete, I [sc. Studie] putte hym ferst to boke.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 260 (MED) Þe poete [sc. Aristotle] preues þat þe pecok for his fetheres is reuerenced.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 306 All þat poites haue pricket of his prise dedis, I haue no tome for to telle.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Aa Cornelius Nepos an eloquent Poet in the time of Cicero.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 163 The Soul..in Sleep or Dreams,..seems to be surprized with unexpected Answers and Reparties; though it self were all the while the Poet and Inventor of the whole Fable.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Poet, an inventor, an author of fiction; [etc.].
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a. In select or emphatic sense: a writer of verse distinguished by particular insight, inspiration, or sensibility, or by remarkable powers of imagination, creativity, or expression; a writer of fine poetry. Also occasionally: a writer of prose marked by these qualities; a prose poet. Cf. poetry n. 2d.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > inspired poet
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poet1530
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prose writer > writer of prose-poetry
poet1530
prose poet1683
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Poet, a connyng man, poete.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Gi Semblably they that make verses, expressynge therby none other lernynge but the crafte of versifyeng, be nat of auncient writers named poetes, but onely called versifyers.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1v Onely the Poet..lifted vp with the vigor of his owne inuention, dooth growe in effect, another nature, in making things either better then Nature bringeth forth, or quite a newe formes such as neuer were in Nature.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 12 The Poets eye, in a fine frenzy, rolling, doth glance From heauen to earth, from earth to heauen. View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. iii, in Wks. I. 544 Euery man, that writes in verse, is not a Poet; you haue of the Wits, that write verses, and yet are no Poets: they are Poets that liue by it, the poore fellows that liue by it. View more context for this quotation
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur Pref. sig. A 'Tis below the Dignity of a true Poet to take his Aim at any inferiour End.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 102 in Wks. (1721) II. To sacred Poets I apply, Who all scholastick Heights out-fly.
a1764 R. Lloyd Dialogue in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 15 A Poet only in his prose, Which rolls luxuriant, rich, and chaste.
1844 H. W. Longfellow Rain in Summer 61 These, and far more than these, The Poet sees!.. He can behold Things manifold That have not yet been wholly told.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 249 Aristophanes is..a poet in what we are apt to call the modern sense of the word—a poet, that is to say, endowed with original intuitions into nature, and with the faculty of presenting to our minds the most varied thoughts and feelings in language uniformly beautiful, as the creatures of an exuberant and self-swayed fancy.
1912 H. Belloc This & That 38 He is not exactly a poet, but still, his verse is remarkable.
1971 G. Urang Shadows of Heaven iv. 131 Beginning in the eighteenth century a number of critics came to speak of the literary work in general as..a second nature created by the poet in an act analogous to God's creation of the world.
2003 Nation 22 Dec. 48/1 Poetry being what usually gets lost in translation, a first-rate translator must be a genuine poet as well.
b. In extended use: an imaginative practitioner of any of the fine arts; a person working with creativity and imagination in any art form.
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society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun]
artist?1578
artiste1790
poet1839
1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 27/1 The poet,..—and by poet I mean whoever creates ideas in bronze, in stone, in prose, in words, or in rhymes—the poet stirs up only what is imperishable in nature and in the human heart.
1874 F. J. Crowest (title) The great tone-poets, being short memoirs of the greater musical composers.
1907 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 3/3 Schumann is a minor poet among musicians. We remember his lesser things..and remain cold to his large-scale pieces.
1977 P. Pollack Photogr. 141/1 Photography seems to satisfy a special Japanese aesthetic need, and Japanese probers and poets with the camera are among the world's best.
2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 82 Mies was a poet in glass and steel, the inventor of the clear-span building and designer of the Barcelona Pavillion.
4. With capital initial. In certain English Roman Catholic schools: a member of the sixth class, a scholar in the Poetry class or year (see poetry n. 5). Now rare.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > Roman Catholic or Jesuit > specific form > pupil in
poet1674
rhetorician1676
grammarian1705
Syntaxian1705
philosopher1711
syntactician1774
poetician1895
figuration1904
1674 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. 63 (1972) 49 Poets. Will Mylot. Ralph Mylot..Syntaxians..Grammarians.
1679 Tryals & Condemnation Jesuits 47 I was a Student there, a Poet.
1777 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 369 On the 10th Wm. Lancaster, Poet, returned to England.
1837 J. C. Fisher Diary 29 Apr. in Ushaw Mag. (1904) Dec. 242 The Grand Exams. begin. The Poets and Syntaxians. Mr. Newsham did not attend. I did not examine any myself. The Poets were evidently alarmed.
5. poetic. A singing bird or (occasionally) other animal. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound
singing bird1565
songbird1573
whistler1590
singer1626
songster1656
songstress1684
poeta1748
squeaker1808
twitterer1815
night singer1816
song-fowl1877
a1748 J. Thomson Poems Several Occasions (1750) 18 O Nightingale, best poet of the grave [later eds. grove].
a1801 J. Hurdis Relapse (1810) Thou little warbling poet of the wood, Leading performer in the sylvan choir.
1892 Ld. Tennyson Throstle i Summer is coming, summer is coming, I know it, I know it, I know it... Yes, my wild little Poet.
a1909 A. Anderson Cricket's Song in Later Poems (1912) 184 Let him sing to cheer the gloom, This one true poet of the hearth.
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a. Appositive, with senses ‘that is a poet’, ‘a poet and ——’.† poet-bird n. Obsolete† poet-bounce n. [bounce n.1 4b.] Obsolete† poet-sucker n. [compare sucker n. 3] Obsolete
poet-actor n.
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1867 Cornhill Mag. 15 666 The stage whereon the poet-actor was enacting the counterfeit presentment of a king.
1912 Times 10 Sept. 24/1 The only piece of real property in London known for certain to have belonged to the poet-actor [sc. Shakespeare].
2005 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Entertainment section) 4 Ekundayo Griot Ade, a published poet and storyteller, and poet-actor Georgette Gregory will be guest performers at this evening of music.
poet-artist n.
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1882 Times 23 Jan. 9/5 John Linnell..had a certain sympathy in mystical tendencies with the poet-artist, William Blake.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. 334 It represented the poet-artist [sc. Dante Gabriel Rossetti] when his earnestness was shown in his face.
2005 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 12 e Two Asian-American poet-artists celebrated for their unusual, cross-disciplinary work.
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1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 58 The nightingale..the poet-bird.
poet-bishop n.
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1877 N.Y. Times 12 May 8/1 Llewelyn Davies deals with Ambrose, the poet Bishop of Milan, in eight pages.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 5/1 The oldest existing wine club, the ‘Phœnix’, of which the poet-bishop, Heber, was once a luminary.
2004 BBC Music Mag. (Nexis) 1 May 60 The gravely luminous spiritual contemplation of Confessing with Faith (settings of the 12th century Armenian poet-Bishop St Nerses Shnorhali).
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a1652 R. Brome Novella Prol. sig. H4v, in Five New Playes (1653) Those Poet-Bownces that write English Greeke.
poet boy n.
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1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. viii. iii. 39 A dream that had hovered over the poet-boy.
1894 S. A. Brooke Tennyson xii. 429 The music of the brook is everywhere. The music of pleasant human love is also everywhere. The poet-boy fills it with unworldliness.
2004 Palm Beach Post (Florida) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 1 d King Arthur (Richard Harris),..sort of a combination valiant knight, fierce warrior and moony-eyed poet boy.
poet-composer n.
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1875 Appleton's Jrnl. 25 Sept. 410 The latest work of the poet-composer [sc. Wagner], based on the great German Iliad, the ‘Epic of the Nibelungs’, is the final development of the school.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 256 Lortzing..in more modest proportions was comparable to Wagner as a poet-composer.
1995 New Scientist 7 Oct. 49/2 Poet-composers write songs whose lyrics define the tunes.
poet-critic n.
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1814 M. Berry Jrnl. 9 Mar. (1865) III. 6 There are always signs of a poet critic and of genius in all he does.
1956 Ess. in Crit. 6 212 Poet-critics as dissimilar as Arthur Symons and Mr. Eliot.
1998 A. Gelpi Living in Time iii. 192 Day Lewis had learned to live with..a..generation of poet-critics hostile to and jealous of him.
poet-dramatist n.
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1902 Daily Chron. 11 Feb. 3/2 He possesses this gift..a poet-dramatist in the highest sense of the word.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 56/3 Part of the scheme to deflect to the Stratfordian the interest certain to arise in the identity of the mysterious poet-dramatist.
poet-historian n.
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1890 J. Healy Insula Sanctorum 619 Eachaid O'Flinn was a still more celebrated poet-historian.
1991 San Francisco Rev. Bks. Fall 45/3 Such pan-Caribbean creative artists as the Barbadian-born, Jamaica-bound poet-historian Edward Kamau Braithwaite.
poet-humorist n.
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1897 Q. Rev. Oct. 331 The poet-satirist succeeds the poet-humorist.
2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Jan. b1/1 New Yorkers have given the poet-humorist Ogden Nash a pass for far too long.
poet king n.
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1817 J. Keats Poems 113 And they shall be accounted poet kings Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.
1907 M. Hume Court Philip IV ix. 355 Glib verse and bitter prose, addressed to the poet-king himself.
1994 D. Porter Frommer's Comprehensive Trav. Guide Portugal '94–'95 i. 4 He is sometimes known as ‘the poet king’ or ‘the farmer king’.
poet-musician n.
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1855 Times 20 Apr. 8/4 Orchestra, chorus and actors vie with each other to give expression to the thought of the poet-musician.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era iii. 28 Wagner, all his life, thought of himself not merely as a poet-musician.
1996 Time Out N.Y. 19 June 63/4 The restlessly urbane poet-musician who helped refine tropicálismo, the revolutionary music that took hold of Brazil in the late '60s.
poet-novelist n.
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1870 Times 9 Nov. 4/1 Veteran as he [sc. Lord Lytton] is in letters, the poet-novelist is hardly..a veteran in years.
1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. iii. 128 It was the profundity of the pondering that I had in mind when I referred to him [sc. Henry James] as a ‘poet-novelist’.
2005 Denver Post (Nexis) 6 Mar. f1 He graduated with high honors at Yale, where he studied with poet-novelist Robert Penn Warren.
poet-painter n.
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1860 N. Hawthorne Transformation I. xv. 238 Or we might indicate a poet-painter, whose song has the vividness of picture.
1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green v. 75 Dante Gabriel Rossetti..that poet-painter.
1979 Monumenta Nipponica 34 279 This mid-era resurgence can also be represented by a literary triad: the poet-painter Buson, the phantasiast Akinari, [etc.].
poet-patriot n.
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1882 W. Sharp D. G. Rossetti 3 There has lately been a successful movement to erect a statue to his memory in the chief piazza of Vasto, which also..bears the name of the poet-patriot.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 164 I sing..the restoration of our land, and become the poet-patriot of my people.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Aug. i. 37 In four years as mayor, his naming efforts have included..a new school, Jose Marti, honoring Cuba's poet-patriot.
poet-pilgrim n.
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1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets Concl. ii That same green forest where had gone The poet-pilgrim.
1921 Times 1 Apr. 11/4 No trace [of April Fools' Day] exists in Chaucer, the poet-pilgrim of humour.
2003 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 30 June 74 This poet-pilgrim joins a literary tradition of others before her who journeyed through the dark nights of doubt to the convinced light of faith.
poet-ploughman n.
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1886 J. S. Blackie in 19th Cent. Apr. 534 The great poet-ploughman of Scotland.
1995 C. Cavanagh O. Mandelstam & Modernist Creation of Trad. 186 The vigorous poet-ploughman of ‘The Word and Culture’ regenerates past life by turning it toward the future.
poet-preacher n.
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1880 Times 27 Dec. 5/1 The minister is Dr. W. C. Smith, the poet preacher.
1907 Catholic Encycl. II. 502/1 This poet-preacher [sc. Bernard of Cluny] is also a prophet.
1990 V. Harding Hope & Hist. vii. 135 Their words, like those of the generations of Black poet-preachers who came before them, broke loose from all constraints of prose and book.
poet priest n.
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1651 E. Nevill To Memory Mr. William Cartwright in W. Cartwright Comedies, Tragi-comedies In the same Sepulcher Lies the best Poet-Priest-Philosopher. 'Tis Cartwright; it can be None else but He.
1821 Ld. Byron Elegy on Keats ii The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man).
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 169 This is a well-received poem (then as well as now) written by a poet priest renowned for the satiric temper of his verse.
poet-princess n.
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1851 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 4) iii. 67 If that strange Poet-princess with her grand Imaginations might at all be won.
1999 SF Weekly (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Music section) She didn't want to be the holy poet-princess on a pedestal; she wanted to be part of a combo.
poet-prophet n.
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1652 Non me Palma in E. Benlowes Theophila Vates Poet-Prophet is; If good, both scorn'd, and understood.
1891 A. Austin Lyrical Poems 39 Blithe friend! blithe throstle! Is it thou, Whom I at last again hear sing,..Poet-prophet of the Spring?
1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell xvi. 279 A melodramatic image, which recalls..the poet-prophet of Lord Weary's Castle, the exalted punisher of Boston's ills.
poet saint n.
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1645 R. Stable Elegy on Quarles in F. Quarles Solomons Recant. sig. I4v A Poet-saint he was.
1892 F. W. L. Adams Songs Army of Night (ed. 2) 55 Echo not, however faint, Our great watch-word, our great war-shout, sweet and sickly poet-saint!
1991 G. A. Oddie Hindu & Christian in S.-E. Asia i. 21 There were 84 readers who recited either the Vedas or the Prabandam (devotional poetry of the Alvars or poet saints).
poet-satirist n.
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1890 I. J. Lansing Romanism & Republic xi. 343 The poet-satirist was wholly right in his dream.
1992 Newsday (Nexis) 7 Dec. ii. 49 He appeared on albums with..guitarist James Blood Ulmer and poet-satirist Ishmael Reed.
poet seer n.
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1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 9 July 4/3 These are prophetic words:—The Poet-Seer shall yet triumph in the success of his prediction.
1896 Times 26 June 10/1 The famous historical interview between King Henry VII..and Davydd Llwyd, a poet-seer, before the battle of Bosworth Field.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Jan. 53/1 The filid, the poet-seers who have descendants in the land.
2004 Hindu (Nexis) 26 Jan. The ancient Tiruvanmiyur shrine, the Marundiswarar Koil, associated with the poet seer Valmiki.
poet-singer n.
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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi All were silent, for the poet-singer was a favourite.
1903 L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 27 To have seen many lands, to have had a wide and varied experience was considered a qualification for the poet-singer's calling.
1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents iii. 55 Particularly prized is the ability of the poet-singer (trovador) to improvise décimas on the spot.
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. i. 2 in Wks. II Gi' mee the man, can..giue the law to all the Poets, and Poet-suckers i' Towne, because they are the Players Gossips.
poet-thinker n.
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1902 G. C. Albert Relig. Mature Mind vi. 159 A Hebrew poet-thinker, considering the heavens, the work of God's fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained, speedily discovers that interest in creation centers in humanity.
1955 H. W. Robinson Cross in Old Test. ii. 65 There are great poet-thinkers, like the author of the Book of Job, who wrestle with the mystery of divine providence and human destiny.
1993 L. W. Levine Unpredictable Past iii. xii. 250 The name of Capra's first hero in this vein, Longfellow Deeds, was a combination of the nineteenth-century poet/thinker, Longfellow, and the man of action, of deeds.
poet-warrior n.
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1880 Times 14 May 9/6 Spaniards who resolve to join in testifying to the memory of the poet warrior.
1934 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. 49 365 A poet-warrior sings, adding the name of Grendel's conqueror to the role of Germanic heroes.
2000 Church Times 6 Oct. 10/4 As..the tourists poured in, he found that there was nothing for it but to come out as a poet-warrior in defence of the very spirituality of Wales against the invaders.
poet woman n.
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1659 F. Mortoft Trav. 5 Jan. (1925) 68 Sapho, that excellent Poet woman, that was soe much extolled in Greece.
1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets cvii And Sappho..O poet-woman!
2002 Austin Amer.-Statesman (Texas) (Nexis) 7 Apr. k1 Not just any woman—but a pretty poet woman!
b. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a poet.† poet-nectar n. Obsolete† poet-word n. Obsolete
poet-craft n.
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1863 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 354 A controversy..lost in the mysteries of poetcraft.
1931 R. M. Lovett Sel. Poems W. V. Moody 216 The ode..has perhaps won for him more followers than any single poem, representing as it does a climax in his combination of sheer poet-craft with warmth and depth of feeling.
poet heart n.
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1844 E. B. Barrett Lady Geraldine's Courtship in Poems I. 249 Is no woman far above me, Found more worthy of thy poet-heart, than such a one as I?
1970 M. J. Power In Name of Bee v. 91 Life was, in the language of her poet heart, just the primer to the world beyond.
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a1861 A. H. Clough Lett. & Remains (1865) 41 A fount Of the true poet-nectar whence to fill The golden urns of verse.
poet-song n.
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1900 Indiana Democrat 23 May 1/2 The poet song that, ‘Flowers bloom to light our pathway to the tomb’, conveys..sentiments of faith and hope.
2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 28 May 14 At times, her low-toned poet-song treads too near to the unintentionally ridiculous.
poet soul n.
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1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 272 A true Poet-soul, for it needs but to be struck, and the sound it yields will be music.
1886 G. Gissing Demos III. 282 Before that high-throned poet-soul Adela bent in humble reverence.
2003 Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. 18 It is Dre, supposedly the sensitive poet soul, whose disc brims with sex and innuendo.
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1855 R. Montgomery Sanctuary 142 In vain would plastic Sculpture dream It moulds such beauty now; Or, poet-words reflect the gleam That sanctifies thy brow.
1893 H. D. Rawnsley Valete 74 Hardly thou To our dull prose their poet-words dost fit!
c. Objective.† poet-ape n. [compare ape n. 3] Obsolete
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2v The cause why it [sc. Poesie] is not esteemed in Englande, is the fault of Poet-apes, not Poets.
1629 W. Singleton in J. Ford Lovers Melancholy sig. A3v Poet-Apes may feare To vent their weaknesse, mend, or quite forbeare.
1720 J. Swift Let. to Young Poet (1721) 31 A Multitude of Poetasters, Poetito's, Parcel-Poets, Poet-Apes, and Philo-Poets.
poet-hater n.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G2 Not onely in these Mysomousoi Poet-haters, but in all that kinde of people, who seek a prayse by dispraysing others.
a1702 E. Sherburne Poems & Transl. (1961) (title) On Aulus a poet-hater.
1956 C. G. Osgood tr. G. Boccaccio in Boccaccio on Poetry xiv. xx. 96 These poet-haters may learn what they were too stupid to see, that when Boethius called the Muses drabs of the stage, he spoke only of theatrical Muses.
poet-worship n.
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 268 There is a poet-worship, one of other Which is idolatry, and not the true Love-service of the soul to God.
a1968 T. Merton in P. Hart Lit. Ess. Thomas Merton (1985) App. 2, 478 One of the unfortunate results of that heresy is poet-worship. There are biographies of Keats and D. H. Lawrence that are simply exercises in hagiography.
1991 I. Salusinszky in R. D. Denham & T. Willard Visionary Poetics i. iv. 69 The deification of criticism becomes the neoRomantic equivalent of High-Romantic poet-worship.
d. Instrumental.† poet-hymned adj. Obsolete
poet-haunted adj.
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1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan xxxiii The beautiful autumnal woods of poethaunted Warwickshire.
1929 N. Arvin Hawthorne ii. 34 If there was an intellectual ‘atmosphere’ in Boston, it..had collected..not in any book-printer's sanctum or poet-haunted basement café, but in the shadowy and shelf-lined recesses of the Athenæum.
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1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City i. 4 Lady Hilda..looked out of the window on the mountain-born, poet-hymned views of Floralia.
C2. † poet saw n. Obsolete rare a poem.
poet-in-ordinary n. a poet officially retained to compose poems on behalf of a person or body (cf. in ordinary at ordinary n. Phrases 2).
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City Poet1607
poet-in-ordinary1704
poet-in-residence1927
1704 W. M. Female Wits iii. 46 They exceed any of our modern Flights, as far as a Description of Homer's does Mr Settle's, Poet in Ordinory [sic] for my Lord Mayor's Show.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 52 Godson of the great Earl, and poet-in-ordinary to the band.
1977 C. Roth Doña Gracia of House of Nasi vi. 133 ‘It ceased to be with this Lady after the manner of women,’ audaciously misquoted Saadiah Lungo, the poet-in-ordinary of the Salonican community.
poet-in-residence n. originally U.S. a poet working in or associated with a university, college, community, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > poets holding other specific positions
City Poet1607
poet-in-ordinary1704
poet-in-residence1927
1927 H. L. Cohen More One-act Plays by Mod. Authors 356 Since 1921 he [sc. Robert Frost] has exercised at intervals unique functions as ‘poet in residence’ at the University of Michigan.
1950 D. Thomas Let. 18 June (1987) 763 Lowell had this Chair [of Poetry] last year. His job was to be a Poet in Residence, to be the temporary host of visiting writers to the capital, American & foreign.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Jan. 7/1 Matthew Sweeney..has been appointed as poet-in-residence in Hereford and Worcestershire, responsible for promoting poetry in schools, libraries and in writer's workshops.
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a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vi. 15 We wryten pasemele poyet sawes.
poet-whipper n. a person who writes polemics against poets or poetry (in later use with allusion to a1586 at sense 3a).
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G1v I imagine, it falleth out with these Poet-whyppers, as with some good women, who often are sicke, but in fayth they cannot tel where.
1904 G. G. Smith Elizabethan Crit. Ess. Introd. p. xxx It is..in the special analyses of the dramatic forms, or heroic poetry, or the art of translation, that they..best express the character of the onslaught of the poet-whippers.
1963 E. S. Donno Elizabethan Minor Epics Introd. 5 The Elizabethans built up a considerable body of apologetic material to oppose both the Poet-whippers and the ‘rakehelly rout of ragged rhymers’.
C3. Compounds with poets' or poet's.† poet's cassia n. Obsolete the white-flowered shrub Osyris alba, (family Santalaceae), thought by some to be the cassia of classical Roman poets (see cassia n.1 3).† poet's rosemary n. Obsolete the shrub Osyris alba (cf. poet's cassia n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > poets' cassia
cassia1594
poet's rosemary1597
poet's cassia1760
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Poet's Cassia, Osyris.
1800 R. Steele Ess. Gardening 69 Osyris, Alba. Poets-Cassia.
1815 E. Quillinan Monthermer iv. 88 Round his bright brow, inweav'd in graceful wreath, Bay, myrtle, laurel, Poet's cassia breathe.
Poets' Corner n. (a) part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey, containing the graves and monuments of several distinguished poets; (b) (also poet's corner) a part of a newspaper or other periodical containing short poetical contributions.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > in Westminster Abbey: Poet's Corner
Poets' Corner1733
society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > other sections or columns
Poets' Corner1733
situations wanted1809
situations vacant1819
feuilleton1845
roman feuilleton1845
home page1860
personal1860
society page1883
City page1893
women's page1893
book page1898
ear1901
film guide1918
op-ed1931
masthead1934
magazine section1941
write-in1947
listings1971
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > aisle in church > specific for poets
Poets' Corner1733
1733 T. Fitzgerald Poems on Several Occasions 24 (title) Upon the Poets Corner in Westminster-Abbey.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 417 An iron gate opens into the south cross isle; which from the number of monuments erected therein to celebrated English poets, has obtained the name of The Poets Corner.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 27 Feb. (1979) I. 453 If you please you may send it [sc. a poem] to the Poet's Corner.
1881 Antiquary Oct. 137 Westminster Abbey: a Study on Poets' Corner.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 229/1 The boy appears to have..made more than one appearance in the poets' corner of a local newspaper.
1904 M. Beerbohm (title) The poet's corner.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 187/1 His [sc. Addison's] body, after lying in state, was interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
2005 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Features section) 1 The..retired electrician is a regular contributor to the Chronicle's letter pages and Poets' Corner.
poet's daffodil n. rare = poet's narcissus n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus
narcissusOE
daffodil1548
laus tibi1548
affodill1551
primrose peerless1578
narciss1586
jonquil1629
Spanish trumpet1664
hoop-petticoat1731
poet's narcissus?1786
poet's daffodil1798
Queen Anne's double jonquil1806
polyanthus narcissus1841
tazetta1847
sweet Nancy1848
polyanth narcissus1856
pheasant's eye1872
peerless primrose1884
Tenby daffodil1884
Queen Anne's daffodil1889
poetaz1906
1772 R. Weston Universal Botanist III. 504 Poetic or Common pale Daffodil, or Narcissus.]
1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xix. 358 Narcissus, poet's daffodil.
1870 W. Robinson Wild Garden ii. 112 Poet's Daffodil. Narcissus poeticus. Southern Europe.
1932 Times 11 May 19/4 A first-class certificate as a variety for cutting was awarded to an excellent poet's daffodil called ‘Papyrus’.
2003 Indianapolis Star (Nexis) 11 Oct. e 1 Second on her list is the poet's daffodil (Narcissus) , one of the oldest varieties on the market, which has small flowers that pack quite a scent.
poet's narcissus n. (also poets' narcissus) the pheasant's eye narcissus, Narcissus poeticus (see pheasant's eye n. 3).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus
narcissusOE
daffodil1548
laus tibi1548
affodill1551
primrose peerless1578
narciss1586
jonquil1629
Spanish trumpet1664
hoop-petticoat1731
poet's narcissus?1786
poet's daffodil1798
Queen Anne's double jonquil1806
polyanthus narcissus1841
tazetta1847
sweet Nancy1848
polyanth narcissus1856
pheasant's eye1872
peerless primrose1884
Tenby daffodil1884
Queen Anne's daffodil1889
poetaz1906
?1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 75/2 [Narcissus] (Poeticus) or poets narcissus.
1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 192/2 The finer types of the Poet's Narcissus should be grown for cutting.
1965 H. Ramsbotham tr. Schauenberg Bulb Bk. iii. 229 This is the Poet's narcissus, one of the most widely distributed European species.
1997 Guardian 19 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 49/4 But the best comes last: the poet's narcissus or pheasant's eye, Narcissus poeticus recurvus, is so rewarding to pick for the house, where it can be combined with trusses of an early lilac.
poet's poet n. a poet whose poetry is generally considered to appeal chiefly or especially to other poets.
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poet's poet1844
1841 J. S. Mill Let. 1 Mar. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 466 Poetry κατ' ἐξοχήν or poet's poetry as opposed to everybody's poetry.]
1844 L. Hunt Imagination & Fancy 75 Spenser..has always been felt by his countrymen to be what Charles Lamb called him, the ‘Poet's Poet’. He has had more idolatry and imitation from his brethren than all the rest put together.
1932 J. Buchan Sir W. Scott iv. 79 Dryden was not a poet's poet, any more than his editor.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 12/1 She [sc. Elizabeth Bishop] was a poet's poet..but she was not a lesbian's lesbian.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > poets' cassia
cassia1594
poet's rosemary1597
poet's cassia1760
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1110 Casia Poetica L'Obelij. The Poets Rosemarie or Gardrobe.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Poet's-Rosemary, a name sometimes given to the Cassia of botanists.
1787 Quincy's Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 10) 109/2 Auxyris, a corrupt word for Osyris, poet's rosemary.
1791 G. Wallis Motherby's New Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 564/1 Osyris, called also cassia poetica... Poets rosemary.
Derivatives
ˈpoetlike adv. and adj.
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1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (vi. 7) i. f. 17v/1 Yet dooth not David enlarge his sorowe Poetlike [L. poetice].
1640 H. Mill Nights Search §31 135 So Poetlike! Rhetoricall, and sweet.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 27 Poet-like he spoke.
1912 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Apr. 74/4 A-standin' on them marble steps to give the show a start! And talkin' big, and talkin' fast, and poet-like.
1996 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 29 Apr. d1 He sounds poetlike. And he looks every bit the poet.
ˈpoet-wise adv.
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a1456 J. Lydgate Bycorne & Chychevache (Trin. Cambr. R.3.20) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 433 (MED) First þere shal stonde an ymage in poete-wyse seying þees thre balades.]
1595 H. Constable in P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie sig. A4 When thou didst on the earth sing Poet-wise, angels in heau'n pray'd for thy company.
1851 ‘I. Marvel’ Dream Life 145 You tie your cravat poet-wise.
1909 Times 27 July 13/6 They group themselves adoringly round him, and when he has postured poet-wise a little, he flees man-wise from their embarrassing affection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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