Which preposition to use with poet

of Occurrences 985%

Infinitely more ingenuity did the great comic poet of antiquity display, when he selected the Scarabaeus; as the food which had already served the purposes of digestion with the Rider, was still capable of affording nutrition to the animal: [Greek: nun d'att'an autos kataphagoo ta sitia.

in Occurrences 292%

All I ask, is the Priviledge for my Masculine Part the Poet in me, (if any such you will allow me) to tread in those successful Paths my Predecessors have so long thriv'd in, to take those Measures that both the Ancient and Modern Writers have set me, and by which they have pleas'd the World so well:

to Occurrences 68%

Myrrha has been often identified with La Guiccioli, and the hero's relation to his Queen Zarina compared with that of the poet to his wife; but in his portrait of the former the author's defective capacity to represent national character is manifest: Myrrha is only another Gulnare, Medora, or Zuleika.

with Occurrences 66%

The would-be Juliet beset the poet with renewed advances, on one occasion penetrating to his rooms in the disguise of a page, on another threatening to stab herself with a pair of scissors, and again, developing into a Medea, offering her gratitude to any one who would kill him.

than Occurrences 59%

There is preserved a curious record of his meeting with a greater poet than Dryden, but one whose greatness neither he nor Scott suspected.

as Occurrences 55%

In the Orator he considers the orator and the poet as similar in style, but not identical.

for Occurrences 49%

It is a thing invented by a poet for himself.

from Occurrences 44%

"In my study," he states, "he found many books open to him; among others, a set of our poets from Chaucer to Churchill, which I am almost tempted to say he had more than once perused from beginning to end."

at Occurrences 30%

Of all the throng of young gentlemen who gathered about the chair of the old poet at Wills's, Congreve was his prime favorite.

on Occurrences 29%

The disputant allies in the common cause occupied each a flat of the same small house, the soldier by profession was bent on writing the Turks down, the poet on fighting them down, holding that "the work of the sword must precede that of the pen, and that camps must be the training schools of freedom."

like Occurrences 28%

And are they poets like you that dwell all about in these pleasant places, and the" She would have said the children, but stopped, not knowing if perhaps it might be unkind to speak of the children when she saw none there.

by Occurrences 21%

Professor Brandes, of Copenhagen, introduces his striking sketch of the poet by a reference to the model, that has its natural place in the museum named from the great sculptor whose genius had flung into the clay the features of a character so unlike his own.

into Occurrences 14%

This seems as much as to say that the splendour of a new poetic genius appears to contemporaries to throw preceding poets into obscurity; but this is only a matter of the moment, for, when the new genius sinks in death, the others shine forth again as stars of the intellectual zenith, to which the new genius is kindred indeed, but not superior.

among Occurrences 11%

He was, essentially, a poet among the metaphysicians, which again favors the conception of him as a pituitary-centered with a dominant post-pituitary.

before Occurrences 9%

The poetical possibilities of sentimentalism were not grasped by any noteworthy poet before Thomson.

without Occurrences 7%

Sir John Suckling, who had a great kindness for him, could not let him pass in his session of poets without this character, Tom Carew was next, but he had a fault, That would not well stand with a Laureat; His muse was hide-bound, and the issue of's brain Was seldom brought forth, but with trouble and pain.

during Occurrences 7%

There were great poets during his own day.

against Occurrences 5%

In fact the whole chapter, and the one following, are devoted not to rhetoric, but to the theory of poetical composition, and explanation of the allegorical conception of the end of poetry, and a defense of the poets against detractors.

after Occurrences 5%

Goethe ranks him as the first English poet after Shakespeare, and is followed by the leading critics of France, Italy, and Spain.

between Occurrences 5%

He is certainly the greatest poet between the Conquest and Chaucer's time.

about Occurrences 5%

so called because it keeps a bleating, or because it hath the tinkling bell of so many poets about the neck of it?

out Occurrences 5%

I, Sir; but they are such phantasticall ayres as it putts a Poet out of his witts to rhime to them; but let mee heare.

under Occurrences 4%

One John Kay, of whom we are singularly deficient in information, held the post of Court Poet under the amorous Edward IV.

over Occurrences 4%

They are Wynd and Naylor, the two Cambridge boating-men, in bedrabbled flannel trousers, and shooting-jackets pocketful of water; who are both fully agreed, that hunting a mad poet over the mountains in a thunder-storm is, on the whole, "the jolliest lark they ever had in their lives.

above Occurrences 3%

These quiet hills, these beech forests, are more to me now than Niagara was at eighteen; and Niagara itself, which raises the poet above the earth, falls tame on the mind of the savage.

Which preposition to use with  poet