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

While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The above lines, written by some unknown poetaster, indicate that it is the book we read over and over again that has the greatest potency in our education.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner