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

Because his words are impersonally grandiose instead of personally grand, Robinson Jeffers, who in another place and another time might have been a prophet, is here & now a vasty poetaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

Louis Untermeyer, 62, perennial poetaster and anthologist, now editorial consultant for Decca Records; and Bryna Ivens, 39, fiction editor of Seventeen magazine; he for the fourth time, she for the second; near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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

But there was another Frederic,—the Frederic of Rheinsberg, the fiddler and flute-player, the poetaster and metaphysician.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron