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

Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet these shackles, if they mar the efforts of the poetaster, only serve to bring out into clearer light the excellence of the true poet.

From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland