versifier
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A much less elegant truism can be traced back to hokey versifier Edgar A. Guest: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2020
By age 14, he had decided to become a poet, inspired after a conversation with a fellow teen versifier who declared, “It is my profession.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2018
Cohen’s appeal, especially as time went on, had to do with his melodies as well: He was more than just a versifier who picked up a guitar, though he was that too.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2016
It was with “Jane: A Murder” that Nelson went from being a versifier to being a writer who plays with prose and remakes the genre.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016
He was a versifier at once prolific and drearily dull.
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
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