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
We have had to wait until our own century for the pioneer work on this writer, since he cannot have been considered a sufficiently major poet by Samuel Johnson's sponsors, and Langbaine's account is sketchy.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
