major poet

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Her renewed national recognition in recent years, a kind of posthumous comeback, strikes me as both welcome and sad, indicative of the hard face L.A. showed its own major poet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

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

Formal art is nearly always the gift of the minor poet, and often of the major poet also.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John