Sentences with word «versifier»

After an abbreviated career as a classically trained actor, Yezzi has emerged in the last few years as one of the country's best versifiers, even as he has also served as an editor at the New Criterion.
Across the city, in the only slightly less hot Washington evening, in an apartment overlooking Georgetown, sits Astrue's opposite, a man named A.M. Juster: formalist poet, comic versifier, and classical translator.
The 18th - century hymn writer and psalm versifier, James Maxwell, followed this belief, which he incorporated into his paraphrase of Psalm 150:
Limerick Everyone's favourite, this ya - ta - ta - ya - ta - ta - ta - ta verse was popularized — but not invented — by Edward Lear, one of the Victorian age's eccentric versifiers and artists.
Breakwater by Catharine Savage Brosman Mercer University Press, 112 pages, $ 30 If classical meter really did begin with literal feet (versifiers out for a walk, two short steps for one long «foot,» and so forth), then calling a lot of modern metrical poetry pedestrian wouldn't really....
One of the drawbacks of versified psalmody is that it may reflect too much the prejudices of the versifier and not enough the biblical text.
Fiction The Gower in The Invention of Fire is portrayed as a «versifier» whose work gains less acceptance and acclaim than Chaucer's, his close friend and confidante.
Not the kind that castles and ships fly or that armies carried into battle (see, e.g., the Battle of the Standard, in reference to which the word was first used in English to mean flag, the OED tells us, because a versifier there wrote: «it was there that valour took its stand to conquer or die»), but growing out of that notion of a centre from which commands are issued all the way to a measure of uniform quality.
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