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- noun Plural form of
poet .
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Examples
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Quoth Masrur the Eunuch, The Caliph Harun Al – Rashid was very wakeful one night and said to me, ‘See which of the poets is at the door to-night.’
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Coleridge and Keats are great critics because of what they tell us of the nature of the poetic imagination and of the power of poetry, and because the things they have to say about certain poets, notably Shakespeare, permanently affect our own reading of those poets.
Deresiewicz and copycat Hari get it wrong on Literary Critics 2009
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As it happens, Frost knew the Latin poets better than he did the Greek ones, and Virgil, along with Lucretius, was probably the classical poet his thoughts turned to most often.
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I think the toughest aspect of narrative writing for poets is the creation of tension or conflict.
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Tom Montag, one of our best Wisconsin poets did a book, Ben Zen THE OX OF PARADOX with my press, (Cross+Roads Press) in l999 which is a wonder to read, behold.
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Econ for poets is a good idea for the non-numerate.
Revolution in Academic Affairs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Two threads of commonality: four of the books contain poets who I have recently seen perform.
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Coleridge and Keats are great critics because of what they tell us of the nature of the poetic imagination and of the power of poetry, and because the things they have to say about certain poets, notably Shakespeare, permanently affect our own reading of those poets.
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Furthermore, her dismissal of contemporary poets is equally vague:
Poetry 2010
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Where I will likely differ from Solway, as well as from other poets, is in which pole of the paradox is emphasized.
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