1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Dec. 272 A true Poet-soul, for it needs but to be struck, and the sound it yields will be music.
1886 G. Gissing III. 282 Before that high-throned poet-soul Adela bent in humble reverence.
2003 (Nexis) 27 Sept. 18 It is Dre, supposedly the sensitive poet soul, whose disc brims with sex and innuendo.