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

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

Wright was our most democratic, most trustworthy major poet in 50, if not 100, years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2016

It may be added that later poetry shows us an instance of exaggeration in the work of that major poet, Mr. Lascelles Abercrombie. 

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson