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

With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.

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

His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was boorish and an unfashionable thing not to be an author, a poetaster, a little orator, a critic, a dabbler in the arts.

From Vigée Le Brun by MacFall, Haldane