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poetasters

n. (plural of poetaster English)

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From this ignorance in some, and vanity in others, we see the monthly and diurnal publications abounding with ballads, odes, elegies, epitaphs, and allegories, the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters, all ushered into notice under the appellation of SONNET!

Usually there was no review, poetry being left to accumulate in literary editors' offices until there was enough of it for one expert to do a single clean sweep in a grudging brief article, everybody -- Enderby, poetesses, poetasters, Sir George Goodby -- all fluffed up together.

How can a bunch of perfumed poetasters like the haut-lords buffalo whole ghem-armies?

She had numberless works dedicated to her, and sonnets without end addressed to her by all the poetasters of Europe, under the name of Lindonira or Calista.