dactylist

[Eng. dactyl; -ist.] A writer of dactylic or flowing verses. "Dr. Johnson prefers the Latin poetry of May and Cowley to that of Milton, and thinks May to be the first of the three. May is certainly a sonorous dactylist ."Warton: Pref. to Milton's Sm. Poems. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, 1259