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
His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century.
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
For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard Johnson, a poetaster of the sixteenth century, published in 1607, The Pleasant Walkes of Moore-fields.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John
