poetesses
Women composing verse
Poetesses is the plural of poetess, a female poet.
The word was once standard but is now largely avoided because it unnecessarily marks gender in a profession where the neutral term poet works for everyone.
When encountered today, it typically appears in historical contexts or older literature.
The Victorian era produced several celebrated poetesses.
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- meterDevice that measures usage
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
haiku · ballad · couplet · quatrain · ode · elegy · limerick · epic
Think deeply about
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- artistryExceptional creative skill
- originalityNovel creative quality
visionary · genius · intuition · fancy · whimsy · fantasy · illumination · enlightenment
Female adults collectively
- writersText composition professionals
- authoressesFemale literary creators
- novelistsWriters of long-form fiction
- playwrightsAuthors of theatrical works
essayists · diarists · biographers · storytellers · wordsmiths · scribes · chroniclers · feminist
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · haiku · ballad · couplet · quatrain · ode · elegy · limerick · epic · pentameter
muse
Think deeply about
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- artistryExceptional creative skill
originality · visionary · genius · intuition · fancy · whimsy · fantasy · illumination · enlightenment · emotion
women
Female adults collectively
- writersText composition professionals
- authoressesFemale literary creators
- novelistsWriters of long-form fiction
playwrights · essayists · diarists · biographers · storytellers · wordsmiths · scribes · chroniclers · feminist · feminine
- women's poetrySylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Sappho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- Russian HeroinesAnna Karenina, Tatyana, Lara, Kitty, Olga
poetessesnovelists
Writers of long-form fiction
essayists · journalists · playwrights · biographers · historians
poetessesliterary critics
Analyzers of published prose
readers · audiences · editors · publishers