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Definition of Poetasters
1. poetaster [n] - See also: poetaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poetasters
Literary usage of Poetasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"... of Wellington's in the rear, must certainly be held to exceed in ingenuity
all the poets and poetasters, great and small, of the present generation. ..."
2. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by John Addington Symonds (1881)
"... on Italian Style—His Good Sense—Controversies on the Language— Academical
Spirit—Innumerable poetasters—La ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"... that it will never suffer itself to be subdued by that childish cant of morbid
sensibility that many modern poetasters have raised over the island. ..."
4. Students' Handbook of the Facts of English Literature Arranged in Classified ...by James Francis Augustin Pyre by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1910)
"Most productive member of the Scriblerus Club, founded by Swift to chastise
poetasters and hack-writers. Prologue to Cato, 1713. ..."
5. Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"... Italian Style—His Good Sense—Controversies on the Language— Academical
Spirit—Innumerable poetasters—La Casa—His Life—'II Forno'—Peculiar Melancholy—His ..."
6. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"... of Wellington's in the rear, must certainly be held to exceed in ingenuity
all the poets and poetasters, great and small, of the present generation. ..."
7. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by John Addington Symonds (1881)
"... on Italian Style—His Good Sense—Controversies on the Language— Academical
Spirit—Innumerable poetasters—La ..."
8. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"... that it will never suffer itself to be subdued by that childish cant of morbid
sensibility that many modern poetasters have raised over the island. ..."
9. Students' Handbook of the Facts of English Literature Arranged in Classified ...by James Francis Augustin Pyre by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1910)
"Most productive member of the Scriblerus Club, founded by Swift to chastise
poetasters and hack-writers. Prologue to Cato, 1713. ..."
10. Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"... Italian Style—His Good Sense—Controversies on the Language— Academical
Spirit—Innumerable poetasters—La Casa—His Life—'II Forno'—Peculiar Melancholy—His ..."
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