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

Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

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