metrist

It readily appears that Chaucer was a great metrist, and bestowed many new forms of metre upon our literature.

He was our first great metrist, and has frequent references to his poetical art.

As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.

In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.