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

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

Something there immediately assures him that he is destined to be an imitator of Æschylus, and leads him to believe, indeed, that he 'has something in common with' Æschylus: the miserable poetaster!

From On the Future of our Educational Institutions by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)