A writer or poet who employs concetti; an artist who specializes in creating elaborate and fanciful intellectual comparisons.
From concetto plus -ist, meaning a person who practices or specializes in this style. The term is primarily used in literary history to describe baroque and Renaissance poets.
John Donne and other metaphysical poets were concettists who compared love to a compass, a flea, or a burning coal—their wild associations revolutionized English poetry and influenced writing for centuries afterward.
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