as in minstrel
a person who writes poetry
Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart
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Bettany played English poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer in the medieval action-comedy, which starred Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, who forges a new identity for himself as a knight when his master dies.
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Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Others, going back to the poet Hesiod, contrasted the order of the Universe, or cosmos (κόσμος), with the great void of nothingness.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Expect to see a few tears on listeners’ checks as Jason Wilber and Dave Jacques — two longtime Prine collaborators — remind us once again of the genius of this late, great folk-music poet.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Others, going back to the poet Hesiod, contrasted the order of the Universe, or cosmos (κόσμος), with the great void of nothingness.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Expect to see a few tears on listeners’ checks as Jason Wilber and Dave Jacques — two longtime Prine collaborators — remind us once again of the genius of this late, great folk-music poet.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
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Like many such venues across America, the Kempner also hosted lectures, minstrel shows, musicals, operas, plays and vaudeville acts, along with community events such as school graduations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Aug. 2025
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His grandfather Daniel was a miner who would perish in an underground accident, and his great uncle George owned a minstrel show that toured Western mining camps.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
31 July 2025
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Many surrealist artists cast women as muses or dream figures conjured for the male gaze.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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In both cases, their cultish devotion to a spouse has generated enduring curiosity, part of which may be envy, since many women have aspired to serve as a muse to genius.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood, who’s been erroneously pegged as an internet bard while managing to craft a literary project that is much bigger than anything Zuckerberg hath wrought, has a new gift for us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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But Frost, who attended Harvard, lived for a time in England and taught for many years at Amherst College, was hardly an unpolished rustic bard.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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