Poet

n.

1.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. - Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. - Dryden. Poet laureate See under Laureate.

Noun

1.

poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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