versifier

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A much less elegant truism can be traced back to hokey versifier Edgar A. Guest: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020

By age 14, he had decided to become a poet, inspired after a conversation with a fellow teen versifier who declared, “It is my profession.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2018

Cohen’s appeal, especially as time went on, had to do with his melodies as well: He was more than just a versifier who picked up a guitar, though he was that too.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2016

A saint quoting the words of our most radical versifier.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016

The poem contains a number of faulty lines,—lines of twelve, of eleven, and of eight syllables,—of which it is easy to suppose that a more sacredly commissioned versifier would not have been guilty.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry