metrist

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

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

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

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

In his dramas Hugo used the alexandrine, but in his lyric poems, his wonderful resources as a metrist were exhibited to the utmost in the invention of the most bizarre, eccentric, and original verse forms.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Certainly all later versions—Pope's and Cowper's and Lord Derby's and Bryant's—seem pale against the glowing exuberance of Chapman's English, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

For, skilful and accomplished metrist as he was, it was only by dint of "repeated experiments and intense mental effort" that he achieved those results in which his art appears most artless.

From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington