noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
poet laureate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
famous
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He was already a famous poet and playwright, but he was a family man, too.
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Susskind Eikhl is a famous poet .
great
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But in the principality last week he was hailed as a greater poet than Dylan Thomas.
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The myths as we have them are the creation of great poets .
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But one great poet is perhaps enough in any family, even the most civilized.
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He is so great that we poets who came after have to carry him around on our backs.
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The great poets then start the recitation of their work.
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The great modernist poet Wallace Stevens supported himself as an executive at a Hartford insurance company.
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The little village of Grasemere has inspired many of our great artists and poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Ruskin.
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Thomas Aquinas, and its greatest poet , Dante Alighieri.
romantic
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The romantic poets were interested in extremes of emotion, and there were frequent undertones in their writings of sadism and death.
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The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late neoclassicism.
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Or the works of Charles Dickens sandwiched between a well-thumbed leather-bound edition of the Romantic poets and three volumes of philosophy.
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Like the legendary biographies of the Romantic poets , realism is at best a by-product of art and not its raisond'être.
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Born in 1818, he had been educated under the supervision of the liberally inclined Romantic poet Vasilii Zhukovskii.
young
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The others present were young poets whose work he liked.
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The latter was more than anything else a showcase for younger expressionist poets like Georg Heym.
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What inspired that rebellious young poet called Rimbaud?
■ NOUN
laureate
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Later he became poet laureate of the United States.
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Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate .
■ VERB
write
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In this context, what goes on outside, what is actually written by poets and novelists, is of minor interest.
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It is only when Alvarez starts to write about poetry and poets that the book comes to life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a frustrated artist/actor/poet etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is so great that we poets who came after have to carry him around on our backs.
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It is a chapter commenting on the differences between recent poets and poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Later on a poet with real soul, but now with the Friday sport, here's Tim.
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The poet Francis Rose wrote in 1855 of how King Alfred ... his blow-stone blew.
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The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.
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Use of the name was, in fact, standard for female poets.
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With his teachers he salvaged from oblivion many of the Swahili poets, notably the Mombasa poet, Bwana Muyaka.