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

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 Jones, Harold Whitmore