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PO-uh-tas-tur
noun
a lousy or inferior poet
1602The PoetasterRufus Laberius Crispinus, and Demetrius Fannius, hold up your hands. You are, before this time, jointly and severally indicted, and here presently to be arraigned upon the statute of calumny, or Lex Remmia, the one by the name of Rufus Laberius Crispinus, alias Crispinus, poetaster and plagiary, the other by the name of Demetrius Fannius, play-dresser and plagiary.1860The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord MacaulayThat knowledge he had derived partly from books, and partly from sources which had long been closed; from old Grub Street traditions; from the talk of forgotten poetasters and pamphleteers who had long been lying in parish vaults; from the recollections of such men as Gilbert Walmesley, who had conversed with the wits of Button; Cibber, who had mutilated the plays of two generations of dramatists; Orrery, who had been admitted to the society of Swift; and Savage, who had rendered services of no very honourable kind to Pope.1917Hearts of Controversy...Swinburne, who hailed a certain old friend, in a dedication, as 'poet and painter' when he was pleased with him, and declared him 'poetaster and dauber' when something in that dead man's posthumous autobiography offended his own self-love…Labels: Alice Meynell, Ben Jonson, Lord Macaulay
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