THESAURUS
Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, balladmonger, banana, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, elegist, epic poet, epigrammatist, fili, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, idyllist, imagist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, jongleur, lampooner, lampoonist, laureate, librettist, madcap, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, occasional poet, odist, parodist, pasquinader, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, poison-pen writer, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, rhapsode, rhapsodist, scop, skald, sonneteer, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany
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Detractor
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detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner,
satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.