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Water Poet; waterman. Eccentric British poet John Taylor (1580–1653) was known as the Water Poet because of the na- ture of many of his rollicking poems and because he was a river waterman, a boatman who transported passengers along the River Thames. He claimed that he knew no grammar, though he had written over 80 books. One time he set out from Lon- don to Queensborough in a cardboard boat, using two cured fish tied to canes for oars, and nearly drowned when the boat sank moments after he launched it. |