The greatest or most eminent poet; a poet of supreme skill and significance.
Arch- plus poet (from Greek poietes, maker or creator). The term became especially famous because of 'The Archpoet,' a 12th-century wandering scholar and satirist whose identity remains mysterious.
Medieval scholars called an unknown brilliant poet 'The Archpoet'—his Latin satires were so witty that centuries later nobody knows who he really was, but everyone remembers how good he was.
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