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poetess

[poh-i-tis] / ˈpoʊ ɪ tɪs /


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The manuscript containing those lines was copied out five hundred years after the newly discovered version—half a millennium further away from the moment when the Poetess first sang this song.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

America’s Poetess of Neurotic Vanity In HBO’s , Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the vice president as a personality in search of a cult.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2012

Their mother, a niece of longtime Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Poetess Amy Lowell, was a leading light of Boston's intellectual and social communities.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Extracts from a Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Marie, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the thirteenth century.

From The Lay of Marie by Betham, Matilda




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