Also verse-maker, verse maker. [f. VERSE sb. + MAKER sb. Cf. Du. verzenmaker, G. versmacher, Da. versemager.] One who makes or writes verses; a poet or versifier.
1647. Hexham, I. s.v., A verse maker, or a Poet,… een Poët.
1728. Young, Love Fame, 191. All other trades demand, verse-makers beg.
1791. Boswell, Johnson (1904), II. 124. A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers … there is no poetry.
1836. Southey, in Life & Corr., VI. 302. The versemaker gets the habit of weighing the meanings and qualities of words.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 269. What we call poetry was to them real life, not as to the modern versemaker a masquerade of gods and heroes.
