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poetess|ˈpəʊɪtɪs|
[f. poet + -ess. So It. poetessa (Florio 1598), F. poétesse (1642 in Hatz.-Darm.), Sp. poetisa, etc.]
A female poet; a woman who composes poetry.
1530Tindale Answ. More xvi. (Parker Soc.) 92 Our lady hath..emptied her of much high learning, which, as a goodly poetess, she uttered in rhymes. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 186 The heauenly deuises of the delitious Poetesse Sappho. 1748Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 28 Apr., I am no Poetess; which reproachful name I would avoid, even if I were capable of acquiring it. 1830Wordsw. in Chr. Wordsw. Mem. (1851) II. 226 British poetesses make but a poor figure in the ‘Poems by Eminent Ladies’. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets v. 129 Among the ancients Sappho enjoyed a unique renown. She was called ‘the poetess’, as Homer was called ‘the poet’. |