Chapter Pluck his Goose to Poets of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Podgers Toadies, venerators (real or pretended) of everything and everyone with a name. (John Hollingshead: The Birthplace of Podgers, a farce.)

Podsnap A type of the heavy gentry, lumbering and straight-backed as Elizabethan furniture. (Dickens: Our Mutual Friend.)

Podsnappery The etiquette of the fossil gentry, stiff-starched and extremely proper.

“It may not be so in the Gospel according to Podsnappery ... but it has been the truth since the foundations of the universe were laid.”- Our Mutual Friend.

Poe (Edgar Allan). The alias of Arthur Gordon Pym, the American poet. (1811-1849.)

Poet Squab So Rochester calls Dryden, who was very corpulent. (1631-1701.)

Poets (Greek, poieo, to make).
   Skalds of Scandinavia (etym., scalla, to sing, Swedish, etc.)
   Minnesingers of the Holy Empire (Germany), love-singers.
   Troubadours of Provence in France (troubar, to invent, in the provencal dialect).
   Trouvères of Normandy (trouver, to invent, in the Walloon dialect).
   Bards of Wales (bardgan, a song, Celtic).
   Poet of Haslemere (The). Alfred Tennyson (Lord Tennyson), poet laureate (1809-1893). (See Bard.)
   Poet of the poor. Rev. George Crabbe (1754-1832).
   Prince of poets. Edmund Spenser is so called on his monument in Westminster Abbey. (1553-1598.)
   Prince of Spanish poets. Garcilaso de la Vega, frequently so called by Cervantes. (1503-1536.)
   Quaker poet (The). Bernard Barton (1784-1849).