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
Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great majority of us are minor poets, but "poetaster," by definition, implies the accusation of "paltry," which, in its turn, is a sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard Johnson, a poetaster of the sixteenth century, published in 1607, The Pleasant Walkes of Moore-fields.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John
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