major poet

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This was the major poet of revolutionary Nicaragua.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2021

I appreciate the introduction to a new major poet.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2020

Yeats hoped it would establish his reputation as a major poet, “justifiably, as it turned out”, Kelly said.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2018

The goal of “Forever Words,” Mr. Cash said, was to establish his father as a major poet and a “cultural American literary figure.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2016

Had William Vaughn Moody lived longer, it is probable that America would have had another major poet.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon