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Poetaster (/poʊɪtæstər/), like
rhymester or versifier, is a
derogatory term
applied to bad or
inferior poets. Specifically,
poetaster has implications...
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Poetaster is a late
Elizabethan satirical comedy written by Ben
Jonson that was
first performed in 1601. The play
formed one
element in the back-and-forth...
- the free dictionary.
Accentual verse Crambo Knittelvers Nonsense poetry Poetaster "Doggerel". Merriam-Webster.
Retrieved 18
September 2014. Harper, Douglas...
- Oleaster,
signifying a
plant like an olive, but less
valuable (cf.
poetaster), may be
applied to:
Feral olive trees that have been
allowed to run wild...
- writer, who
fancied himself as a poet,
earning the
derisive label of
poetaster. Pye was born in London, the son of
Henry Pye of
Faringdon House in Berkshire...
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Burton eloquently wrote about Somalia: "The
country teems, with 'poets,
poetasters, poetitoes, poetaccios':
every man has his
recognized position in literature...
- (née
Julia Ann Davis;
December 1, 1847 – June 5, 1920) was an
American poetaster. Like Scotland's
William McGonagall, she is best
known for
writing notoriously...
- "maker" allopoiesis, autopoiesis, onomatopoeia, piyyut, poem, poesy, poet,
poetaster, poetic,
poiesis pol- pole Gr**** πόλος (pólos) dipole,
polar pole- sell...
- the
figure Corinna in Ovid's Amores. In Ben Jonson's
comedy play, The
Poetaster (1601),
Julia is the
romantic interest of Ovid. The play
itself is commonly...
- over "the non-descript
ephemera from the
heated brains of self-important
poetasters" that p**** as
sonnets in the
literary reviews of her day. The example...
