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• n  a poet who writes sonnets

• There was a young poet called George Sterlinggiven to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lineswho once knocked on Mary's apartment door.
• Merrill Moore, 54, psychiatrist, neurologist, longtime Harvard Medical School teacher (1930-42), compulsive "champion sonneteer" (he reputedly wrote some 100,000), whose .
• Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, scholar, sonneteer, son of boxing's famed rules-maker, the late eighth Marquess of Queensberry, whose note denouncing young Alfred's friend, Oscar Wilde .