love-poet

Sometimes in the same poem we see him, now conforming to the manner of the traditional love-poet, now revivifying it or bursting through it with images and ideas that are wholly personal to himself.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

‘Miss Cloud, do I understand you to say that Sidney was the greatest love-poet of the Elizabethan age?’

The Rising of the Moon Mitchell, Gladys 1945

‘Miss Cloud, do I understand you to say that Sidney was the greatest love-poet of the Elizabethan age?’

Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

It was among the younger generation of Courtiers that Donne found the warmest admirers of his paradoxical and sensual audacities as a love-poet, as it was the divines who looked to Laud and the Court for Anglican doctrine and discipline who revered his memory, enshrined by the pious Izaak Walton, as of a divine poet and preacher.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

Nor is Clarinda’s love-poet, Sylvander, the real Burns either.

The Study of Poetry 1909

The study will probably teach us that Shakespeare was the most impassioned lover and love-poet in all literature.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

Shakespeare was the most impassioned lover and love-poet in all literature.

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

This fact alone -- that our first great English poet was also our first English love-poet, properly so called -- would have sufficed to transform our poetic literature through his agency.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

"Si douce est la marguerite:" he has learnt the ways of French gallantry as if to the manner born, and thus becomes, as it were without hesitation or effort, the first English love-poet.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

"There is," says a Latin love-poet, "no why or wherefore in liking."

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838