versifier

How To Use versifier In A Sentence

• El Greco was like a writer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a versifier, who had little command of syntax.
• And hereof saith a noble versifier: Transit ad æthera, virgo puerpera, virgula Jesse, Non sine corpore, sed sine tempore, tendit adesse. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
• Johnson of Cheshire: that he was himself likely the compiler of the four parts of _The Merry-Thought_ and that, whatever the individual versifiers may have intended, this infamous collection of graffiti -- _as collection_ -- shares very closely with Johnson’s other work a spirit of wild variety, eccentric juxtaposition, and essential anarchism that is meant to lead, not to clever parody of polite literature, but to a new, almost apocalyptic vision of the sublime. The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4
• To suggest that the noble versifier is at sixes and sevens? The Times Literary Supplement
• Thus, the claim that "I've kept as yet from thieving pretty free" is undercut by a "stolen" form, or rather one that evokes a high-literate and aristocratic practice of satire, casting the lowly versifier as a clown in lordly clothing. Like
• If any campus-bound versifier of today boasts a similar wound in pursuit of metre, we'll offer sympathetic space. The Times Literary Supplement
• dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language. A Study of Poetry
• In addition to the poet, there is another type of versifier, the bard, who lacked the professional training of the fili.
• And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots. Chapter 32
• He was a stained-glass designer, amateur architect, and occasional versifier (author of ‘I never saw a purple cow’).