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
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
The gallant handsome Surrey, tutored by Love into our first, if not our sweetest sonneteer; and Michael Drayton, with his apt crest—Mercury's bright cap, blazoned with sunbeams.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.
"Black demons hovering o'er his mitered head," think you, gentle sonneteer of the daffodil-marsh?
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
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