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
He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a poetaster in America or Australia thought he possessed immortal genius he could not rest content until he had received, or at least attempted to obtain, Victor Hugo's imprimatur.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
