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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had dropped out of the vocabularies of the French romancists and had become the common property of the ordinary provincial poetaster.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian