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Definition of Poets
1. poet [n] - See also: poet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poets
Literary usage of Poets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... (2) the preparation which Plato is making for the attack on Homer and the
poets; (3) the - preparation which he is also making for the use of economies ..."
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"Gabriel Harvey's Third Letter, from his ' Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets,'
1592; h. five sections,—Poetrie; poets; Comparative Discourse of our English ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Greek Authors' (1808) in Chalmers's 'poets ' (1810), vol. xx. ; in the ' Works
of the Greek and Roman poets ' (1813), vol. v. ; and in the 'British poets' ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1859)
"The "Lives of the poets " completed -Observations upon, and various Readings in,
... This edition of the poets was in sixty volumes, small octavo. ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"The best of these collections had been The Lives of the poets of Great Britain
... ^The most obvious features of The Lives of the poets is the equipoise of ..."
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