单词 | arch-poet |
释义 | arch-poetn. 1. Chief or first poet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > chief or first poet arch-poet1714 1714 ‘N. Ironside’ Orig. Canto Spencer (ed. 2) Pref. 5 England's Arch-Poet Spencer. 2. A poet-laureate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > title of eminent poet poet laureatea1456 laureatea1529 arch-poet1610 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 186 Henrie of Aurenches, Archpoet to King Henrie the Third. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. M7 After the rare Arch-Poet Johnson dy'd, The Sock grew loathsome. 1730 A. Pope Of Poet Laureate in Grub-St. Jrnl. 19 Nov. The title of Archi-poeta, or Arch-poet, in the style of those days, in ours, Poet Laureate. 1750 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. i, in Wks. I. 38 The Election of an Arch-poet, or as others call him a Poet Laureate, to the Goddess of Nonsense. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1610 |
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