poetaster
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Origin of poetaster
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin or New Latin; see poet, -aster 1
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Now it gets him $300 a week at NBC, and Poetaster Joseph Auslander, poetry consultant to the U. S. Library of Congress, once invited him to be U. S.'s "Voice of Poetry."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely.
From Time Magazine Archive
Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around�the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critic and Poetaster Louis Untermeyer had a true believer's admiration for Frost's poetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, for any Poetaster may improve three-fourths of the careless old Fellow’s Verse: but it would puzzle a Poet to improve the better part.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis
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