At the end of April, Captain Hunnable, an eccentric poet from Ilford, arrived in the constituency, promising to raise wages to £2 a week and form a government within five years.

She had nothing to gain by an association with a bohemian eccentric poet such as Pound, who was definitely "left bank" in his views and works.

Ludwig was an eccentric and notoriously bad poet.

Ill-Fitting Auden It's interesting to see a famous, eccentric poet in an unfamiliar role.

The mature iconoclast began as an eccentric undergraduate poet.

Described as a "rumpled, eccentric poet", and sometimes considered a rather ineffectual person, he was close to the Bloomsbury Group, who called him 'Bob Trevy'.

One has the impression, reading "The Flâneur," of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see.

(1795-1840) An eccentric German poet and philosopher noted for his extensive travels and membership in myriad secret societies.

While he's trying to sort this out, he has a most unlikely affair with a wildly eccentric poet named Ruth Prochak, for whose fate he also believes he (or the book's character) is responsible.