poetaster

The poetaster is thinking about words, but with no feeling for them whatsoever.

As the inspired poetaster might say, storm clouds are gathering over Europe.

In additional to his writings he is a poetaster and some of his works may be found on the web.

He was a poetaster, not a poet.

These days every poetaster gets the 1,000 pages once reserved for conquering despots or renaissance men.

A notorious phrase, from the hysterical sonnets of a poetaster of the period.

This poetaster had to do instead.

Chairman Mao appeared and lectured us: "Ho is just a poetaster.

Jonson attacked the two poets again in 1601's Poetaster.

Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretentions to artistic value.

After his death, Pye remained one of the unfortunate few who have been classified as a "poetaster."

The poetaster Thomas Gaspey recorded his own impressions in verse.

At various times, he called himself a schoolteacher, a surveyor, a farmer, a house painter, a pencil maker, a writer, and "sometimes a poetaster."

The band Miracle Fortress has a song entitled "Poetaster".

The Poetaster online.

Thus sang a poetaster in Lille (France).

"I am a mere poetaster; but had not the higher wisdom claimed my allegiance, I might have made my mark in poesy."

They had a big hit that year with Ben Jonson's The Poetaster.

The Poetaster, comedy (performed 1601; printed 1602)

Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a contemptuous name often applied to bad or inferior poets.

Amphimacer - a poetaster or sham poet who composed certain silly poems for his mistress and anyone else.

In "Poetaster," he lifts a whole satire out of Horace and dramatises it effectively for his purposes.

"The artist is anonymous," Bortz said, "so is the poetaster who rewrote the play.

The term poetaster, meaning an inferior poet with pretentions to artistic value, had been coined by Erasmus in 1521.