poetaster
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of poetaster
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin or New Latin; see poet, -aster 1
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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
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
Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.
From Time Magazine Archive
But jealousy of his fame could be found among men of much higher pretensions than this wretched poetaster.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
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