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

Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b.

From Time Magazine Archive

A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

Louis Untermeyer, 62, perennial poetaster and anthologist, now editorial consultant for Decca Records; and Bryna Ivens, 39, fiction editor of Seventeen magazine; he for the fourth time, she for the second; near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

So, read the love-scenes of any dramatist during Shakspeare's period—or the heroic passages of any poetaster copying his manner;—isn't that Bedlam, my dear Smith? isn't that Hanwell?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various