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
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.
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
