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

For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century.

From Time Magazine Archive

With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was boorish and an unfashionable thing not to be an author, a poetaster, a little orator, a critic, a dabbler in the arts.

From Vigée Le Brun by MacFall, Haldane