sonneteer
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of sonneteer
1580–90; sonnet + -eer; replacing earlier sonnetier < Italian sonnettiere
Example Sentences
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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
If only, as one sonneteer 286 suggested, the soldiers of Las Lanzas had marched out from their great gilt frame and gone against the foe!
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
As a sonneteer he achieved real excellence, the form being exactly suited to his sensitive genius.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Theodore Watts-Dunton, himself an accomplished sonneteer, finds the sonnet as "in the literature of modern Europe, a brief poetic form of fourteen rhymed verses, ranged according to prescription."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
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