| 单词 | water poet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater poet water poet n. (a) a poet who is associated with water (originally and chiefly as an epithet of John Taylor (1578–1653), who was a waterman on the Thames); †(b) a writer of doggerel verse (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > writer of doggerel water poet1612 water-rhymera1637 doggerelist1725 doggereler1822 doggerelizer1827 1612 J. P. in J. Taylor Sculler sig. A3 (heading) To the one and onely water-Poet and my friend Iohn Taylor. 1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides ii. vi. sig. D3 Farewell ye rockes and seas, I thinke yee'l shew it That Sicelie affords a water-Poet. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iii. sig. F3v A Play in the Puritans ruffe? Ile buy his Workes for't, And confute Horace with a Water Poet. 1713 ‘N. Ironside’ in 2nd Pt. Tunbridge-misc. 23 The Water Poets [at Bath] are an innocent Tribe, and deserve all the Encouragement I can give them. 1741 Querists, Pt. III 26 Like Hackney Versifiers and Water Poets, he makes one Verse for the Matter, another for the Rhime. 1826 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 432/1 Taylor the water-poet says that, in the Highlands of Scotland, he saw only deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures. 1876 J. R. Thomson Pelton's Illustr. Guide Tunbridge Wells (ed. 7) 33 If the water-poets may be believed, there has always been an abundance of distinguished beauties among the visitors to Tunbridge Wells. 1903 W. Besant London in Time of Stuarts 339 Taylor, the water-poet, thus speaks of coaches. 1964 E. Dahlberg Alms for Oblivion (1967) 56 Both Melville and Crane were boreal men seeking the mild trade winds. They were water poets. 2005 J. F. Merritt Social World Early Mod. Westm. v. 169 The Crown itself retained the services of about forty watermen who were called upon to act on public occasions, including John Taylor the Water Poet. < as lemmas |
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