poetaster
Example Sentences
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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
Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows the modern fad of writing a subjective Sanskrit all his own.
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
The annalist who does not enable us to see mankind in real events, is as unnatural as the poetaster who substitutes monstrosities for men in fictitious events.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
