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

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

He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, we question whether the strains of any poetaster can be considered vile, when brought into comparison with this gentleman’s verses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various