metrist

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Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

See notes on Dunbar as a metrist, in this edition, vol. i. pp. cxlix and clxxii, and T. F. Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, pp. 153-164.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

For the Greek poet was, as a metrist, thinking primarily of quantity, of the relative "timing" of his syllables, and the American of the relative "stress" of his syllables.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

But the most remarkable instance of harmony between metrical form and other characteristics, both of form and matter, in the metrist has yet to be mentioned.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George