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

It was with “Jane: A Murder” that Nelson went from being a versifier to being a writer who plays with prose and remakes the genre.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2016

It is manifestly absurd to crown with the name of poetry every petty emotion or description by some versifier, and deny it to the great dramatists who depict passions and color great ideas with emotion.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert