poetaster

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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Humbert Wolfe, 55, actory-looking poetaster and Deputy Secretary of Britain's Ministry of Labor; in his sleep; after complaining previous day of a chest pain; in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

A good young man with a pathetic career; but a poetaster merely.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George