How To Use Poetess In A Sentence
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Unfortunately for him the dairymaid was a poetess, and she gave vent to her sorrow in verse, in which it may be assumed the tutor came in for much abuse.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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A poet doesn’t want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
Phineas Redux
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We were delighted when Maria Gertrude Kyle took a seat in our barouche on my mother's invitation, and she was well known as authoress and poetess, in our few Georgia papers.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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Poet Mary O'Donnell, for example, has suggested "poetess", "authoress", "hysterical" and "as a mother"; but to me, these are bugbear words and phrases rather than tripping-up ones – she's disturbed by the way they're used rather than confused by the act of reading them.
Which words disturb you?
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She always had some little performance to entertain him: Rosa the schoolgirl, Rosa the fishwife, Rosa the poetess.
SACRAMENT
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His poetess is inspired by the Polish Roma poetess Papusza; 1910-1987.
The Roma Poetess
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I know that you have no desire to celebrate war on the face of it, like Owen's "poetess" - nor do I begin to presume to know the challenges or "virtus" of military life and warfare.
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All the poems centered about the poetess' individual fortunes and displayed tragic scenes and emotions which represented the principles of "poems emblem plaintiveness " by Confucius.
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I've been using it as that (since I do not use it for anything else, and thus am less likely to accidentally activate my mic at the wrong time) for so many years that I don't know that I would adjust very well to changing to another key - and by now, I'm used to double-tapping the key to turn off the actual caps lock for when I begin typing again. ladypoetess
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always gives away a woman writer, also known as poetess.
Poem Containing "So," "And," "Such"
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The second work of our poetess consists of a collection of fables, generally called Aesopian, which she translated into French verse.
The Lay of Marie
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She's not really all that mean, just a brooding poetess.
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There was a "poetess" named Jessie Pope who was, apparently, a kind of one woman recruiting force - she wrote verse singing the praises of war and urging young men to enlist.
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She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
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Andrews demonstrates that writing woman is no longer the burden of that outdated creature: the poetess.
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Emily Dickinson , a famous American poetess of the 19 th century, is a unique and unprecedented poet.
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He inquired the cause and learned that the most celebrated woman in Italy would that morning be crowned at the capital -- Corinne, the poetess and improvisatrice, one of the loveliest women of Rome.
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The poetess, Rosemary, was also present at the function.
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This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate?
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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-- A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
Phineas Redux
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Often Munro is historical and modern simultaneously, as in her depiction of the doctor who treats the nineteenth-century frontier "poetess": "He believes that her troubles would clear up if she got married.
A Quiet Genius
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She was the daughter of the establishment poetess, Yekaterina Sheveleva, a long-time associate of Yuri Andropov.
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Emily Dickinson, a famous 19th century American poetess, enjoys equal popularity with Whitman and is conferred the pioneer of the 20th century English and American Imagist movement.
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Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
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The plot, about police investigator Stewart trying to nab a criminal while being unlawfully pursued with daffy poetess Colbert in tow, is too lightweight — and the characters spend too much time pointlessly arguing — for me to care.
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Did I tell you of her before, and how she is the niece of Lord Cork, and poetess by grace of certain Irish Muses?
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
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She was the daughter of the establishment poetess, Yekaterina Sheveleva, a long-time associate of Yuri Andropov.
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It was a pathetic love story of the romanticist poetess Elizabeth Barrett and novice poet Robert Browning.
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June 14th, 2003
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She always had some little performance to entertain him: Rosa the schoolgirl, Rosa the fishwife, Rosa the poetess.
SACRAMENT
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But I had an inspiring meeting with the poetess.
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This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
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He subsequently surfaced in aficcione, a tale of his bootless pursuit of a reclusive poetess, modeled on one I'd met on-line.
My Fictional Tormenter
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To the defiant Danyèl Waro of La Réunion, for his maloya songs; to the Kanak poetess Déwé Gorodey, who defied the colonial powers all the way to prison; to the rebellious Abdourahman Waberi.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
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The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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There is a "poetess" in the wilds of nineteenth-century frontier Canada ( "Meneseteung"), a violinist in the 1940s who dreams of leaving her baby outside to die ( "My Mother's Dream"), and an aging piano teacher, Miss Marsalles, whose popularity is waning ( "Dance of the Happy Shades"):
A Quiet Genius
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A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas; and yet verily alive in the inside of that!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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Emily Dickinson , a famous American poetess of the 19 th century, is a unique and unprecedented poet.
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She is the greatest living poetess.
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In that way, what we are accustomed to perceiving as the imaginary, challenges the so-called real and affirms Shelley's view that poets and for my purposes, poetesses, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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_carmen triumphale_ of the poetess is a worthy accompaniment.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
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We use author and poet rather than authoress and poetess, but until fairly recently it was permissible to distinguish persons who act by gender.
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He treasures Parveen's poetical works inscribed by the poetess herself to Aitzaz Ahsan.
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I loved that anthology, and, although an 11-year-old aspiring "poetess", I wasn't alarmed that women were more often the subjects than the authors (what's so bad about being a rarity?) but, yes, it was refreshing suddenly to be presented with this notion that the poet's desired woman might not exist at all; that she might be a figment of his imagination.
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She is the greatest living poetess.
