Emerson, though only a mediocre poet himself, was the first to see that there was an American poetry to be written.

He was a telling political writer, but a mediocre poet.

Alexandru Toma, later judged a mediocre poet, was proclaimed the greatest Romanian poet alive.

His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers.

Soon another suitor enters, the mediocre poet, Charles (tenor), a comic figure.

Some, including Burton Feldman, have criticised this prize because they consider Prudhomme a mediocre poet.

Its central character, a mediocre poet, is modeled after one of his prison mates, Mr. Goncz said.

A witty journalist, a mediocre poet and dramatist, he had translated Ibsen's Peer Gynt and written a number of unproduced plays.

He was a poet and a writer who wrote odes and verse pieces, although rated as a mediocre poet.

The awareness of the merits and defects in inscriptions by the archivists indicates that even they, though mediocre poets, had studied standard classical literature in Sanskrit.