Category:Poet

Po"et, n. Etym: [f. poëte, l. poëta, fr. Gr. Poem.]

Defn: 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.