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

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

For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And now we shall lay down our pen, and bid farewell for a season both to poet and to poetaster.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various