Poetaster

The Norwegians still speak of him as himmelstraevende sublim ( "sublime in his heavenly aspiration"); the Danes will have it that he was an hysterical poetaster. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These two volumes belonged to clergyman and poetaster John Lea Simcox, who died in July 1840 at the age of 26; they were taken as a memorial by a friend, Laura Price, from Birmingham. eBay ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm also pleased to see that they didn't include a poem by that poetaster Barack Obama, given that Moi, too, am running for President. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sir Lewis Morris was a voluminous poetaster with a common mind. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A tweedy poetaster who spent his time spinning out parables and Japanese koans…or a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at lilies in the fields — such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who create him the Jesus Seminar and their ilk threaten no one. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2007)

Jovianus Pontanus makes an old fool rhyme, and turn poetaster to please his mistress. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Was it knowledge of this passage, Master, or ignorance of everything else, that made certain of the common steadfast dunces of our days speak of thee as if thou hadst been a starveling, neglected poetaster, jealous forsooth of Maitre Francoys Rabelais? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Macedonia, the great Cardinal Richelieu a jealous poetaster, and the great ❋ Unknown (2005)

The whole race of Darling will be at my mercy — the pompous old Admiral, who refused to call on me till his idiot of a son persuaded him — that wretched poetaster, who reduced me to the ignominy of reading his own rubbish to him — and the haughty young woman that worships a savage who has treated me with insult. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

I haven't heard Platen referred to as a poetaster. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For Phalaris was just that minute dreaming how a most vile poetaster had lampooned him, and how he had got him roaring in his bull. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the last year of his life, he sent Adams a letter from Joel Barlow, an American poetaster living in Paris, who argued that French peace feelers were genuine. ❋ Richard Brookhiser (2002)

Indeed, we question whether the strains of any poetaster can be considered vile, when brought into comparison with this gentleman's verses. ❋ Various (N/A)

Were we not right in saying that there is nothing in the writings of any former poetaster to equal the silly and conceited jargon of the present versifier? ❋ Various (N/A)

But since they have acted as they have done, we too must be permitted to express our opinion of their merits; and our deliberate judgment is, that the weakest inanity ever perpetrated in rhyme by the vilest poetaster of any former generation, becomes masculine verse when contrasted with the nauseous pulings of Mr ❋ Various (N/A)

This crushing rejoinder was cordially welcomed by Thackeray and the rest of the Staff, who loved to castigate the fopperies of the conceited poetaster, and Lytton, it is said, was not a little astonished at the virility of "school-miss Alfred." ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)

Dude, I hate [Writer's] [Workshop]. It's really just a big Poetasters Anonymous meeting in there. And the instructor [sucks ass]. ❋ Sparky (2005)