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Versifier

noun
1.
A writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets).  Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester.






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"Versifier" Quotes from Famous Books



... not in the presence of Mr. Ruddall cover a piece of parchment with ancient characters for the purpose of imposition, though the fact is clearly ascertained by the testimony of that gentleman! —The reverend commentator argues on this occasion much in the same manner, as a well-known versifier of the present century, the facetious Ned Ward (and he too published a quarto volume of poems). Some biographer, in an account of the lives of the English poets, had said that "he was an ingenious writer, considering his low birth and mode of life, he having ...
— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone

... with the rest, which I hope I have translated closely enough, and given them the same turn of verse which they had in the original; and this, I may say without vanity, is not the talent of every poet. He who has arriv'd the nearest to it, is the ingenious and learned Sandys, the best versifier of the former age; if I may properly call it by that name, which was the former part of this concluding century. For Spenser and Fairfax both flourish'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; great masters ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... dozen years younger I might try this with Calderon which I think I have found to succeed in some much shorter flights: but it is too late now, and you may think it well that it is so, with one who takes such great liberties with great Poets, himself pretending to be little more than a Versifier. I know not how it is with you who are really a Poet; and perhaps you may think I am as wrong about my trochee as ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald



Words linked to "Versifier" :   writer, rhymester, poetizer, author, poetiser, versify



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