Difference between Versifier and Poet

VERSIFIER vs POET: NOUN

An inferior poet.
One who versifies.
One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.
One who versifies, or makes verses.
One who expresses in verse the ideas of another; one who turns prose into verse; a maker of a metrical paraphrase: as, a versifier of the Psalms.
One who versifies; one who makes verses; a poet.
A writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

A person who writes poems.
See under Laureate.
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
One skilled in the art of making poetry, or of metrical composition; one distinguished by the possession of poetic faculties or susceptibilities; one endowed with the gift and power of imaginative invention and creation attended by corresponding eloquence of expression, commonly but not necessarily in a metrical form.
One who composes or indites a poem: an author of metrical compositions.
One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical.
A writer of poems.
A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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Dramatist, Playwright, Essayist, Novelist, Metrist, Dichter, Tune, Rapprochement, Writer, Lyricist, Poetic, Bard, Poem, Poetry, Versifier

Feydeau, Epigram, Denise levertov, Hemingwayesque, Sensualist, Max beerbohm, Rhetorician, Poetical, Anthologist, Poesy, Prose, Punster, Bard, Novelist, Poet

Literary critic, Philosopher, Literary, Poetess, Dramatist, Playwright, Essayist, Novelist, Rapprochement, Writer, Poetic, Bard, Poem, Poetry, Versifier

Camarinseus, a most excellent versifier; and the same, according to Gyraldus, whose descent into Hades is so universally known.
Pope is a master versifier of astounding technical skill.
Dryden pronounced Sandys the best versifier of his age.

Roman poet who lived a generation before Virgil, was a lyric poet who devoted many of his verses to the woman he loved.
The poet was wayward; he waited on inspiration; and as the divine afflatus bloweth where it listeth so the poet necessarily kept irregular seasons.
How has the poet made them Pupils can pick out any devices the poet has used.
Beowulf poet, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, hakespeare, Donne, and ilton, and such major genres as epic, romance, lyric, poetry, and drama.
The German poet and philosopher Goethe experimented with the form, as did the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
He was very often a playful poet, on occasion an ecstatic poet, and his imagery was, well, more than metaphysical.
Irish poet intimates, but might claim more specifically that the local artisan is the Grasmere poet in disguise.
Rydal Mount than the poet of Dove Cottage, whom the Irish poet seems to admire most.
ETUS Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera and contemporary poet Pat Mora will read from their works.
The Poet Laureate must be a poet of recognized merit.