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Definition of Folk poet
1. Noun. A folk writer who composes in verse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folk Poet
Literary usage of Folk poet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays in the Study of Folk-songs by Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco (1886)
"If I have judged rightly, there were songs of death before there were any other
love songs than those of the nightingale ; but the folk-poet was still young ..."
2. Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry by Adolphus Alfred Jack (1912)
"Burns, who, had he died at thirty would have died a national poet, dying at
thirty-seven died as the folk-poet of the world. The songs of the people ! ..."
3. Russian Poets and Poems: "classics" and "moderns", with an Introduction on by Nadine Jarintzov (1917)
"... the son of a plain cattle-dealer—an almost illiterate herdsman, yet a genius
as a folk-poet. ..."
4. The Song of Songs: Being a Collection of Love Lyrics of Ancient Palestine by Morris Jastrow (1921)
"... breasts and belly—are introduced in all, though the order varies and according
to the fancy of the folk-poet, some features are singled out in one wasf, ..."
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