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Definition of Sonneteer
1. Noun. A poet who writes sonnets.
Definition of Sonneteer
1. n. A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt.
2. v. i. To compose sonnets.
Definition of Sonneteer
1. Noun. A writer of sonnets. ¹
2. Verb. To compose sonnets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sonneteer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonneteer
Literary usage of Sonneteer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... as a sonneteer—The Prothalamion and Epithalamion—The Faerie Queene, and its
stanza—A true prosodic entity—The diction—Capacities of the stanza, ..."
2. Sonnets on the Sonnet: An Anthology (1898)
"THE Sonneteer LIMITED The lazy poet is the sonneteer, Who in twice-seven lines
puts all he knows Of something, be it wood, or mead, or rose, Or love, ..."
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