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
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good young man with a pathetic career; but a poetaster merely.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George
