| 单词 | poet-whipper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoet-whipper poet-whipper n. a person who writes polemics against poets or poetry (in later use with allusion to a1586 at sense 3a). ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G1v I imagine, it falleth out with these Poet-whyppers, as with some good women, who often are sicke, but in fayth they cannot tel where. 1904 G. G. Smith Elizabethan Crit. Ess. Introd. p. xxx It is..in the special analyses of the dramatic forms, or heroic poetry, or the art of translation, that they..best express the character of the onslaught of the poet-whippers. 1963 E. S. Donno Elizabethan Minor Epics Introd. 5 The Elizabethans built up a considerable body of apologetic material to oppose both the Poet-whippers and the ‘rakehelly rout of ragged rhymers’. < as lemmas |
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