poet

poet
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. writer, poemwriter, bard, versifier, dilettante, minstrel, troubadour, jongleur, verse maker, maker of verses, scribbler of verses, metrist, lyrist, parodist, author, lyricist, librettist, dramatic poet, dramatist, lyric poet, writer of lyrics, rhymester, poetaster; see also artist 1 , writer .
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.
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
versifier, rhymer, lyricist, bard, poetaster, author. ''The painter of the soul.''— Isaac D'Israeli. ''A nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.''—Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun One who writes poetry: bard, muse2, poetaster, poetess, rhymer, rhymester, versifier. See WORDS.

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  • poet — POÉT, Ă, poeţi, te, s.m. şi f. 1. Persoană care compune poezii, autor de poezii. 2. Persoană înzestrată cu imaginaţie şi sensibilitate de poet (1). – Din ngr. poiitís, lat., it. poeta, fr. poète. Trimis de ana zecheru, 29.03.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  …   Dicționar Român

  • poet — poet, versifier, rhymer, rhymester, poetaster, bard, minstrel, troubadour denote a composer who uses metrical or rhythmical language as his medium. Poet is used in a generic sense and in several highly specific senses. In its generic sense it… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • poet — (n.) early 14c., a poet, a singer (c.1200 as a surname), from O.Fr. poete (12c.), from L. poeta poet, author, from Gk. poetes maker, author, poet, from poiein to make, create, compose, from PIE *kwoiwo making, from root *kwei to pile up, build,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Poet — Po et, n. [F. po[ e]te, L. po[ e]ta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to make. Cf. {Poem}.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. [1913 Webster] The poet s… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • poet — poet1 [pō′ət] n. [ME < OFr poete < L poeta < Gr poiētēs, one who makes, poet < poiein, to make: see POEM] 1. a person who writes poems or verses 2. a person who displays imaginative power and beauty of thought, language, etc. poet2… …   English World dictionary

  • Poēt — (lat. poëta), Dichter; Poeta laureatus, soviel wie »gekrönter Dichter« (s. d.) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Poet — Poēt (lat.), Dichter; Poēta laureātus, s. Gekrönter Dichter. Poëtáster, schlechter Dichter, Reimschmied …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • poet — [n] person who writes expressive, rhythmic verse artist, author, balladist, bard, dilettante, dramatist, librettist, lyricist, lyrist, maker, metrist, odist, parodist, poetaster, rhapsodist, rhymer, rimer, sonnetist, versifier, writer; concepts… …   New thesaurus

  • poet — ► NOUN 1) a person who writes poems. 2) a person possessing special powers of imagination or expression. DERIVATIVES poetess noun …   English terms dictionary

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  • Poet — A poet is a person who writes poetry. EtymologyFrom the ancient greek : , poieō : I make or compose ; , poïêtes : artisan, creator, maker (also makar), author, poet > Latin : : poet, author > Old French : (1200 1400) or > Used ( poet ) in 14th.… …   Wikipedia

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