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

A saint quoting the words of our most radical versifier.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016

There was Denham, known as a versifier little inferior to Waller, and with such superior claims on the score of loyalty as to be considered worthy of knighthood and the first vacant post.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David