'A ___ can survive everything but a misprint': Oscar Wilde, 4 letters
'A person who is passionately in love with language': W.H. Auden, 4 letters
Always be a ___, even in prose: Baudelaire, 4 letters
Every man will be a ___ if he can: Thoreau, 4 letters
I'm a ___ and don't know it!, 4 letters
Painter of the soul: D'Israeli, 4 letters
To be a ___ is a condition, not a profession: Frost, 4 letters
You're a ___ and don't know it, 4 letters
Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac, 4 letters
Annie Finch or Rita Dove, 4 letters
Any of three Lowells, 4 letters
Baudelaire or Rimbaud, 4 letters
Browning of pages of verse, for example, 4 letters
Coffeehouse attraction, maybe, 4 letters
Coffeehouse entertainer, 4 letters
Coffeehouse entertainer, perhaps, 4 letters
Coffeehouse performer, 4 letters
Coffeehouse reader, perhaps, 4 letters
Creator of quatrains, 4 letters
Cyrano de Bergerac, e.g., 4 letters
Dealer in feet and meters, 4 letters
Dickinson or Frost, e.g., 4 letters
Dirty limerick writer, debatably, 4 letters
Donne or Bradstreet, 4 letters
Donne or Pound, e.g., 4 letters
Ezra Pound's profession, 4 letters
Ferlinghetti, notably, 4 letters
Foot massage expert?, 4 letters
Frost or Eliot, e.g., 4 letters
Frost or Longfellow, 4 letters
Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g., 4 letters
He puts one foot after another, 4 letters
Her work may be measured by the foot, 4 letters
Imaginative wordsmith, 4 letters
Jewel is a published one, 4 letters
Jewel Kilcher, for instance, 4 letters
Jim Morrison or Jewel, 4 letters
Jim Morrison or Jewel Kilcher, 4 letters
Job involving stress, 4 letters
Keats or Shelley, e.g., 4 letters
Keats or Yeats, e.g., 4 letters
Langston Hughes, e.g., 4 letters
Langston Hughes, for one, 4 letters
Laureate figure, maybe, 4 letters
Limerick writer, e.g., 4 letters
Limerick writer, say, 4 letters
Lord Byron or Lord Tennyson, 4 letters
Lyricist, essentially, 4 letters
Maya Angelou, for example, 4 letters
O'Neill's A Touch of the ___, 4 letters
Ogden Nash, for one, 4 letters
One appealing to a meter reader?, 4 letters
One concerned with beat and feet, 4 letters
One concerned with feet, 4 letters
One concerned with feet and rhythm, 4 letters
One concerned with meters, 4 letters
One concerned with rhythm and feet, 4 letters
One inspired by Calliope, 4 letters
One inspired by Erato, 4 letters
One known for fancy foot work, 4 letters
One putting one's feet together?, 4 letters
One well-versed in words' worth, 4 letters
One who can survive everything but a misprint: Wilde, 4 letters
One who deals with meters and feet, 4 letters
One who handles stress effectively?, 4 letters
One who makes ode money, 4 letters
One who works in feet, 4 letters
One who works in feet and meters, 4 letters
One who works with feet, 4 letters
One who works with meters and feet, 4 letters
One who's well versed, 4 letters
One with idyll musings?, 4 letters
One with stressing work?, 4 letters
One working with feet, 4 letters
One working with feet professionally, 4 letters
Person creating rhymes, 4 letters
Philip Lamantia, e.g., 4 letters
Pope or Bishop, notably, 4 letters
Pound or Frost, e.g., 4 letters
Pound or Pope, e.g., 4 letters
Rap composer, in a way, 4 letters
Richard Purdy Wilbur, e.g., 4 letters
Richard Purdy Wilbur, for one, 4 letters
Rimbaud or Verlaine, 4 letters
Robert Browning, for one, 4 letters
Robert Frost or William Carlos Williams, 4 letters
Robert Frost, for one, 4 letters
Robert Pinsky or e. e. cummings, 4 letters
Robert W. Service, for one, 4 letters
Sexton or Burns, e.g., 4 letters
Sexton or Pope, e.g., 4 letters
Snug-bug connector?, 4 letters
Timotheus or Phrynichus, e.g., 4 letters
W.H. Auden or E.E. Cummings, 4 letters
Walt Whitman, for one, 4 letters
Whitman or Whittier, 4 letters
Whittier or Whitman, 4 letters
Wordsworth or Whittier, 4 letters
Wordsworth, for one, 4 letters
Horace, to his contemporaries, 5 letters
The Pit and the Pendulum, e.g., 7 letters
Inferior rhymer of verses, 9 letters
Writer of inferior verse, 9 letters
Writers of doggerel, 10 letters
Baudelaire ou Rimbaud, 5 letters
Baudelaire, par exemple, 5 letters
Versailles versifier, 5 letters
Anne Bradstreet, e.g., 7 letters
Anne Bradstreet, for one, 7 letters
Dickinson or Lowell, 7 letters
Dickinson or Millay, 7 letters
Emily Dickinson, e.g., 7 letters
Marianne Moore, for one, 7 letters
Millay, to a sexist, 7 letters
Dickinson and Millay, 9 letters
Dickinson and Plath, e.g., 9 letters
Adjective with license or justice, 6 letters
Beautifully imaginative, 6 letters
Beautifully written, 6 letters
Flowing off the page, maybe, 6 letters
Gracefully expressive, 6 letters
It may precede license, 6 letters
Kind of justice or license, 6 letters
Kind of license or justice, 6 letters
License or justice preceder, 6 letters
Like Keats and Shelley, 6 letters
Like odes and sonnets, 6 letters
Like rhymes and verses, 6 letters
Like Shelley's works, 6 letters
Like works of Kipling and Browning, 6 letters
One kind of justice, 6 letters
Pertaining to verse, 6 letters
Recited in rhyme, perhaps, 6 letters
Type of license or justice, 6 letters
Word before license or justice, 6 letters
Word with justice or license, 6 letters
Written in quatrains, e.g., 6 letters
Fancifully depicted, 8 letters
Pertaining to verse, 8 letters
Using high-flown language, 8 letters
Versifier's condition?, 10 letters
Banal bit of versification, 9 letters
Uncle Miltie/is not guilty, e.g.?, 17 letters
O. J. Simpson as a bard?, 11 letters
APulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980, 13 letters
Being hoist with one's own petard, 13 letters
Comeuppance for Shakespeare?, 13 letters
Sometimes ironic reward or punishment, 13 letters
What a parked laureate feeds?, 11 letters
Aristotle writing on writing, 7 letters
Study of verse writing, 7 letters
Study of versification, 7 letters
Type of literary study (SCOPE IT anagram), 7 letters
Study of poetic works, 7 letters
A writer who composes rhymes, 8 letters
A maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets), 8 letters
Will Rogers's humorous self-description, 10 letters
Honored author for Stephen, 12 letters
Official national verse writer, 12 letters
Robert Penn Warren was the first one in the U.S., 12 letters
Rhymes, in Shakespeare's day, 7 letters
Rhyming works, in Shakespeare's day, 7 letters
The bill and coo of sex per Elbert Hubbard, 6 letters
The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, according to Wordsworth, 6 letters
The Writer's Almanac subject, 6 letters
Billy Collins's forte, 6 letters
Emily Dickinson's field, 6 letters
It may be in motion, 6 letters
It may be performed at a slam, 6 letters
John Masefield's field, 6 letters
Limericks and sonnets, 6 letters
Man Phoebe Snow sang about, 6 letters
Maya Angelou's forte, 6 letters
Pablo Neruda's work, 6 letters
Phoebe Snow's ___ Man, 6 letters
Some literature to print or type, 6 letters
Tanka and sonnet, e.g., 6 letters
Type of reading or slam, 6 letters
Literature in metrical form, 6 letters
Recitation competition, 10 letters
Middle of the quote, 9 letters
___ Corner, part of Westminster Abbey, 5 letters
The only poor fellows in the world whom anyone will flatter: Pope, 5 letters
74- and 90Across, e.g., 5 letters
Angelou and Cummings, e.g., 5 letters
Appropriately, Edgar Allan and Eliot, 5 letters
Artists in a Robin Williams film title, 5 letters
Ashbery and Nemerov, 5 letters
Barrett and Browning, 5 letters
Bishop and Pope, e.g., 5 letters
Bishop and Pope, for example, 5 letters
Burns and Allen, e.g., 5 letters
Burns and Frost, for example, 5 letters
Certain people buried in Westminster Abbey, 5 letters
Coffeehouse entertainers, 5 letters
Dealers in meters and feet, 5 letters
Donne and Bradstreet, 5 letters
Dove and Frost, e.g., 5 letters
Erato is their Muse, 5 letters
Frost and Burns, for two, 5 letters
Frost and Masefield, for example, 5 letters
Greeting card writers, 5 letters
Keats and Horace, for two, 5 letters
Keats and Yeats, for two, 5 letters
Limerick authors, say, 5 letters
Lovelace and Frost, for two, 5 letters
Lovelace's colleagues, 5 letters
Lyricists, basically, 5 letters
Many songwriters, perforce, 5 letters
Masters and Jonson, e.g., 5 letters
People concerned with feet, 5 letters
People who deal with stress successfully?, 5 letters
Performers at some readings, 5 letters
Pulitzer candidates, 5 letters
Ruth Lilly Prize winners, 5 letters
Sandburg and Silverstein, 5 letters
Sandburg and Spenser, 5 letters
Sexton and Plath, e.g., 5 letters
Some open mic performers, 5 letters
Some Pulitzer winners, 5 letters
Sonnet writers, for example, 5 letters
Sonneteers, for instance, 5 letters
Their fans are meter readers, 5 letters
They have a way with words, 5 letters
They're born, not made, according to an old saying, 5 letters
They're born, not made, 5 letters
They're well-versed, 5 letters
This puzzle's theme, 5 letters
Whittier College's team nickname, 5 letters
Writers of sonnets, limericks, etc., 5 letters
Westminster Abbey area, 6 letters
One who is bad to verse?, 11 letters
On second thought, make it an inspirational film: The Evil Dead..., 12 letters