1675 E. Phillips (new ed.) sig. Bb4 Diomede Borghese, a Lyric Poet, or Sonnet writer of Siena.
1781 T. Warton III. 483 George Whetstone, a sonnet-writer of some rank.
1887 XXII. 263/1 The crowning difficulty..of the sonnet writer.
1951 11 May 293/1 We have no modern sonnet writer to continue his theme.
2014 (Nexis) 21 Oct. (National section) 8 The..pastoral poets and suburban sonnet-writers.