Versifier

Gone were the days when poets were seen as avatars of divinely inspired knowledge: for Plato (despite having dabbled in poetry himself in his salad days), the versifier was a feckless artificer, a pernicious influence on the moral hygiene of the polis and not to be trusted with the heavy lifting of the intellect. ❋ Unknown (1998)

He took part in the debating society, where he was prominent, and was known as a versifier of both love poems and satire. ❋ Sherwin Cody (N/A)

His talent for poetry earned him the post of "versifier" (poet-in-residence) for Bromley Friends of the Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even the representational symbols of physics can carry the mind way beyond the perceivable world, but conveying the celestial, majestic and eternal vastness that is altogether ineffable -- that's the undertaking of the transrational artist and versifier; transmitting via poetic expression, filmmaking, painting ... or just being one's ridiculous self. ❋ Sebastian Siegel (2010)

Iran is the country in which the Muslim intellectual tradition is most identified with Sufism, the spiritual dimension of Islam -- including such exponents in poetry and philosophy as Rumi, often reputed to be the widest-read versifier in America today. ❋ Stephen Schwartz (2011)

Peter Riga, a twelfth-century versifier of the Bible, wrote: ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

The comely Abbie Cornish is the very picture of grace and independence, but Wishaw holds his own as the dreamy versifier who finds himself drawn into a blissful, tormented love affair with a woman he cannot have. ❋ John Farr (2011)

Etaoin Shrdlu, a Professor at the University of Missouri-Chillicothe, is not much of a woodsman, but he's carrying a heavy load of chiggers and cockleburrs today as he hacks his way through the underbrush here in search of an elusive quarry; poetess Sara Thaler, a misanthropic versifier who attracts men by repelling them. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

After composing the music, he presented it to Herbeck, who assigned his staff versifier to fit singable words to Strauss's music. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2010)

The following extract from one of Mr. Faux's letters introduces George Bloomfield's circumstances, and conveys an idea of his character: it will be seen that he, too, is a versifier. ❋ Unknown (2009)