poetaster

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Now it gets him $300 a week at NBC, and Poetaster Joseph Auslander, poetry consultant to the U. S. Library of Congress, once invited him to be U. S.'s "Voice of Poetry."

From Time Magazine Archive

Critic and Poetaster Louis Untermeyer had a true believer's admiration for Frost's poetry.

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Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around�the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days.

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In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely.

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Almost all the new-fangled words with which Jonson taxes Marston in his "Poetaster" are now current.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell