Read full poem →Hesper, whom the poet call’d the Bringer home of
all good things.
Dictionary Entry
A person who writes poems, especially as a profession or an art form.
In a Sentence
“The famous poet read some of her new verses at the literary festival.”
Origin
From Old French poete, from Latin poeta, from Greek poietes 'maker, poet'.
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Poetry examples for “poet”
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Read full poem →Dean of Canterbury ; Richard Monckton Milnes (afterwards Lord
Houghton), who united the poet and the politician, and was the
biographer of Keats ; and Richard Chenevix Trench, who became
Read full poem →The splendid poetry he has given to the world has been the
product of the most patient elaboration. No English poet, with
the exception of Milton, Wordsworth, and the Brownings, ever
Read full poem →and a splendid courtesy of the grand old type.’ And Pal-
grave sums up his estimate of the poet’s character in the one
word, ‘‘Lovableness.”’
Read full poem →‘<The Princess, as we now possess it, is the outcome of careful
and sustained effort on the poet’s part, the offspring of his mature
powers, polished and refined through several editions, and may
Read full poem →introduction, the body of the poem is composed in a semi-heroic
verse, Other works of our poet are greater, but none is so fasci-
_ nating as this romantic tale: English throughout, yet combining
Read full poem →enthusiastically received, and Tennyson took at once his place as
England’s great poet. A second edition followed in 1848, a third
in 1845, a fourth in 1846, and a fifth in 1848. Then came The
Read full poem →following January. In June of the same year he married
Emily Sellwood; and in November he was made Poet Laure-
ate. The Tennysons settled first at Twickenham, but three
Read full poem →must find his own interpretation according to his ability,
and according to his sympathy with the poet.”
Read full poem →were largely due to “the fact that he mirrored, as did no
other poet of his period, the changing feelings and the vary-
ing moods of the generations to which he successively ap-