Crossword clues for versifier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Versifier \Ver"si*fi`er\, n.
One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.
--Dryden.One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who versify. 2 (context pejorative English) An inferior poet.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The term "versifier" may refer to:
- a poetaster
- the versificator regis, or "king's poet"
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Usage examples of "versifier".
He is the author of many, many short stories, and a versifier and parodist of note.
The contagion has affected not only our sciolists and our versifiers, but those whom, in the absence of a mightier race, we must be content to accept as the poets of our age.
Apparently Kipling was a versifier who occasionally wrote poems, in which case it was a pity that Mr Eliot did not specify these poems by name.
Farsetti, a Venetian of noble birth, a knight of Malta, a great student of the occult sciences, and a good Latin versifier, came in at one o'clock.
The assembled lyric poets, composers of assassination eulogies, narrative versifiers and satirists -- Baal is here, of course -- gaze with amusement, but also with a little unease, at the sleepwalking Mahound.
Many poets make a living by writing assassination songs, and there is general agreement that the finest of these blood--praising versifiers is the precocious polemicist, Baal.
Baal sang his love poems, and the ache in them silenced the other versifiers, who allowed Baal to speak for them all.
He had become a student, though somewhat reluctantly, in elementary school--and Miss Grind, in junior high, had practically killed his love for poetry by forcing his class to read syrupy sentiments by minor versifiers and telling her students they were great.