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
While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics.
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
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
King Ludwig, himself at least a poetaster, hit upon a felicitous comparison, oft since reiterated, when he designated Overbeck the St. John and Cornelius the St. Paul in pictorial art.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
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