major poet
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Her renewed national recognition in recent years, a kind of posthumous comeback, strikes me as both welcome and sad, indicative of the hard face L.A. showed its own major poet.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023
This was the major poet of revolutionary Nicaragua.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2021
I appreciate the introduction to a new major poet.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2020
Because of Wilde Boys, Mr. Healy said, “I don’t think there’s a major poet in America who doesn’t know who Alex is.”
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2011
Two centuries later great Roman poetry was being written: a major poet was on the scenes, —Virgil.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth