court poet
Monarch's literary servant
A court poet is a poet employed by a royal household or noble patron to compose verses celebrating the ruler, commemorating events, and enhancing the court's prestige.
The position flourished from ancient times through the Renaissance, when patronage sustained poets like Spenser and Dryden.
The court poet composed an ode for the king's birthday.
The term now sometimes describes any writer who seems to serve power rather than challenge it.
- panegyristOne who praises elaborately
- versifierOne composing metrical lines
- bardPoet of epics
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
eulogist · ode · monarchy · chronicler · troubadour · Dunbar · courtly love · royal household · Alexander Pope · noble lineage · encomium · flattery · minstrel · royal · favor · throne · commission · courtier
- royal courtking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- bardsbard, bards, skald, jongleur, gleeman
- poetsHomer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- arts patronagepatron, patronage, sponsors, benefactor, benefactors
- royal scribesarchivist