as in poets
a person who writes poetry
Edna St. Vincent Millay was unofficially the minstrel of Maine, as her poetry celebrates its coast and countryside
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The otherwise very private poets give us a rare look into one of the most intimate moments of their lives.—
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What was important to Grossman in these examples was not so much the lives and personalities of the poets, rather for developing writers to discover in them the roots of their own poetics and poetic sources.—
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