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
Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows the modern fad of writing a subjective Sanskrit all his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because his words are impersonally grandiose instead of personally grand, Robinson Jeffers, who in another place and another time might have been a prophet, is here & now a vasty poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike the ordinary poetaster, Davis wrote with a mission to fulfil, with a set purpose to accomplish.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
