Sentence examples for strong poet from inspiring English sources

She was a "strong" poet — not a religious writer, any more than Shakespeare was.

Dark and playful and self-effacing, Dickinson is another strong poet.

A strong poet, say Keats, will read his strongest predecessor or contemporary, say Wordsworth.

Paul Hansen, who has also been published by Brooding Heron and Copper Canyon, is one of my preferred translators of ancient Chinese poets — but also a strong poet in his own right.

Middle Bloom is altogether dicier, more ambitious and less helpful, a theorist attempting to explain the history of English verse as the struggle of the individual strong poet against his (almost always his) predecessors.

The strong poet's quest against belatedness, his dual to the death with his precursor--the great theme of Bloom's middle phase--gives place, in How to Read and Why, to the reader's receptivity, the reader's openness to difficult pleasures, the reader's need for the companionable forms of imaginative writing.

"Strong" poets, he argued, are able to overcome this anxiety to produce original work in spite of the influence exerted upon them.

The critic's role in all this was to map the secret genealogy, uncovering the true ancestor of the belated poet, difficult to do because strong poets ingeniously masked or concealed their actual influences.

Only strong poets can recognize and admire other strong poets.

I'd be the strongest poet who ever lived.

Oh, there would be women, there would be plenty of women, but no woman, I'd come to realize, even if I were the strongest poet who ever lived, would ever be able to understand my unique ambition.