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).