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.
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For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
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Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
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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