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

For an undeniably major poet, Ammons was unusually funny, slippery and tricky.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2018

Because of Wilde Boys, Mr. Healy said, “I don’t think there’s a major poet in America who doesn’t know who Alex is.”

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2011

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