warrior-poet

And just because the Cimmerian decided to post this review of my sword-and-sorcery story on the same day that Every Day Poets posted one of my zen-ish offerings, I am officially declaring myself a warrior-poet.

The Cimmerian reviews “Return of the Sword” « Swords Against Boredom 2009

As Trilipush conjures him, he is a warrior-poet, equally skilled at ravishing lovers and skewering enemies, sexually voracious and righteously violent.

The Egyptologist Who Would Be Pharaoh 2005

A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action—violent action—and regarded permanent human struggle as necessary for social development.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action violent action and regarded permanent human snuggle as necessary for social development.

WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action—violent action—and regarded permanent human struggle as necessary for social development.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

They have embodied so exquisitely the universal language of religious emotion, that (a few fierce and vindictive passages excepted, natural in the warrior-poet of a sterner age,) they have entered with unquestioned propriety into the ritual of the holier and more perfect religion of Christ.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

And a warrior-poet, beaten, thinking bitter under the stars ...

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

Aucassin's threat that if he loses Nicolete he will not wait for sword or knife, but will dash his head against a wall, is in the very temper of the prisoned warrior-poet, who actually chose this way of death.

Aucassin and Nicolete Andrew Lang 1878

Or the monument of the young warrior-poet Koerner, with a gentle-looking girl and her mother reading and knitting on a bench before it?

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

Or the monument of the young warrior-poet Koerner, with a gentle-looking girl and her mother reading and knitting on a bench before it?

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878