major poet
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles has lost a major poet, one whose verse articulated the experience of Asian Americans long denied presence or representation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 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
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
Formal art is nearly always the gift of the minor poet, and often of the major poet also.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
