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
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.
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With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
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For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
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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