| 释义 |
ˈversemaker
Also verse-maker, verse maker.
[f. verse n. + maker n. Cf. Du. verzenmaker, G. versmacher, Da. versemager.]
One who makes or writes verses; a poet or versifier.
1647Hexham i. s.v., A verse maker, or a Poet,..een Poët. 1728Young Love Fame 191 All other trades demand, verse-makers beg. 1791Boswell Johnson (1904) II. 124 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry. 1836Southey in Life & Corr. VI. 302 The versemaker gets the habit of weighing the meanings and qualities of words. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 269 What we call poetry was to them real life, not as to the modern versemaker a masquerade of gods and heroes. |