poetaster

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Theirs is the world of Richard Savage’s barely fictional writer for hire, Iscariot Hackney, and of scores of other real-life poetasters, rogues, sycophants and dreamers.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2016

Moreover, doggerel composed by anonymous poetasters may compensate for the emotional inarticulateness of many people who simply lack skill with words.

From Time Magazine Archive

What does all your confident assertion about poets, poetasters, poeticules, and the function of communication mean?

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there is spring, the season for simpering adolescents, May flies and impressionable poetasters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Read—O ye poetasters who are now hammering at Crecy—read the "Bonnets of Dundee," and then, if you have a spark of candour left, you will shove your foolscap into the fire.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various