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| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
U.S. poet and novelist, noted for his portrayals of African American life in the South (b.1872--d.1906). |
| Petrarch |
an Italian poet; Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). |
| poetaster |
an untalented or inept poet. |
| poetic |
of, relating to, or characteristic of a poet or of poetry. [1/4 definitions] |
| poet laureate |
in England, a poet honored by being appointed for life to an office in the royal household and traditionally expected to write poems celebrating events and persons of royal or national significance. [2 definitions] |
| poetry |
the art of writing poetry, or the work of a poet. [1/3 definitions] |
| prosody |
a particular form or style of metrics and versification, as of a particular poet. [1/2 definitions] |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
U.S. essayist and poet and one of the founders of the Transcendentalist movement (b.1803--d.1882). |
| rhymester |
a poet of inferior or light verse. |
| Sappho |
a Greek female poet (early sixth century B.C.). |
| sonneteer |
any minor or inept poet. [1/3 definitions] |
| Virgil |
a Roman poet (70-19 B.C.). |
| Walt Whitman |
a U.S. poet (b.1819--d.1892). |
| William Shakespeare |
English poet and playwright (b.1564--d.1616). |
| willow-wild |
(poetic) frail and thin, as coined by the poet and author Langston Hughes. |
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