versifier

He was a fine craftsman, but at heart a versifier not a poet.

As a versifier, we know of no writer, living or dead, who can be said greatly to surpass him.

Dorothy Parker, whom we adored as teenagers, was deemed a light versifier.

He was a versifier of the Psalms.

He was a gifted versifier, but his real genius proved to be for shaping stories and delineating characters.

A versifier can expect to live one year less than a playwright and four years less than a novelist.

Even before the unknown versifier of Isaiah, poets probably looked at a lush meadow and saw a graveyard.

Mao was an obsessive versifier and calligrapher.

You are a qualified versifier.

There are no records of Tryphiodorus' grammatical labours, he is only known as a versifier.

Old Dinny was quite a solemn mole versifier.

I presume it is, as the unspecified versifier has included some pages of a prose-version (which is far superior).

Soon Kasha is forced to flee for his life and escapes the palace with the help of a slave girl and a public versifier.

The New York Times Book Review called her "a true poet, no mere light versifier."

Among the many who supported him in print was the pamphleteer and versifier Ralph Broome.

Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a contemptuous name often applied to bad or inferior poets.

He was also something of a versifier, in 1992 composing a ditty about the reforms of the legal profession:

He was a most facile and brilliant versifier and he composed some admirable hymns.

As Alexander Pope (1688-1744), that great versifier of the Enlightenment, puts it:

Tight as the versifier may draw the knot of logic, yet for the ear he still leaves the tissue of the sentence floating somewhat loose.

Kayim: A versifier and friend of Kasha.

Broome was a prolific pamphleteer and versifier.

It is the perception of this fact which so frequently forces the versifier of delicate ear to employ feet exceeding what are unjustly called legitimate dimensions.

He also became a member of the Roman academy of the Umoristi, and acquired some reputation as a versifier and rhetorician.

In the fifteenth century, John Kay, a versifier, described himself as Edward IV's "humble poet laureate".