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

The writer who is nothing more than a versifier is content with a description of the sights and sounds of the beach; but the poet looks further than this.

From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora