sonneteer

American  

[son-i-teer] / ˌsɒn ɪˈtɪər /

noun

1. a composer of sonnets.

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verb (used without object)

1. to compose sonnets; sonnetize.

sonneteer British  

/ ˌsɒnɪˈtɪə /

noun

1. a writer of sonnets

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Etymology

Origin of sonneteer

1580–90; sonnet + -eer; replacing earlier sonnetier < Italian sonnettiere

Example Sentences

A sonnet is addressed to an indifferent object of passion; even if the actual lover warms up, the sonneteer can’t become too easily complacent—a dark lady suddenly sunny produces no one’s idea of a poem.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

There's a reason I never made it as a sonneteer I guess, but what a joy it was to see all that enthusiasm for and knowledge of poetry pouring out on last week's thread.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2010

There was a young poet called George Sterling�given to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lines�who once knocked on Mary's apartment door.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles, who afterwards took the name of Turner, and, having been born in 1808, died in 1879, was particularly famous as a sonneteer, producing in this form many good and some excellent examples.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

The conceit of the sonneteer is that the fever is an enemy luxuriously lodged in the lovely person of its victim, and there insidiously plotting against her life:

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver