poetaster
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Origin of poetaster
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin or New Latin; see poet, -aster 1
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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
Critic and Poetaster Louis Untermeyer had a true believer's admiration for Frost's poetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
We admit the difficulty of reconstructing facts from productions like The Poetaster, which had been dictated by the overwrought feelings of the moment.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob
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