Po"et (?), n. [F. poëte, L.
poëta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to make. Cf. Poem.]
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for
metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or
writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
Shak.
A poet is a maker, as the word
signifies.
Dryden.
Poet laureate. See under
Laureate.