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
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.
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
