major poet

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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

Yeats hoped it would establish his reputation as a major poet, “justifiably, as it turned out”, Kelly said.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2018

The goal of “Forever Words,” Mr. Cash said, was to establish his father as a major poet and a “cultural American literary figure.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2016

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