poetess

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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

Not only has Playwright Rudolf Besier succeeded in presenting an interesting phase in the life of famed Poetess Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett, but he has artfully achieved an absorbing picture of gloomy Victorian domesticity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In 1788 he published "An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley, Ethiopian Poetess in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

From The Book of American Negro Poetry by Johnson, James Weldon