poetess

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The manuscript containing those lines was copied out five hundred years after the newly discovered version—half a millennium further away from the moment when the Poetess first sang this song.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

America’s Poetess of Neurotic Vanity In HBO’s , Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the vice president as a personality in search of a cult.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2012

She was a friend and traveling companion of Poetess Hilda Doolittle; Ezra Pound tried vaguely to seduce her; in Paris she dined with Gide and Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't suppose," Poetess Naidu will say fondly of her father, "that in the whole of India there were more than a few men of greater learning or more greatly beloved.

From Time Magazine Archive

So great was her renown among the ancients that she was called "The Poetess," as Homer was called "The Poet."

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine