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Poetaster (/ p oʊ ɪ t æ s t ər /), like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretensions to artistic value.
Title page of the first edition of Poetaster (1602). 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 exchange between Jonson and his rivals John Marston and Thomas Dekker in the so-called Poetomachia or War of the Theatres of 1599–1601.
Poetaster; Rudolph Valentino's "Woman in Black" References External links "Yes, Virginia, there is a Poe Toaster", Baltimore Sun, January 26, 2011 ...
A man, who, born in 1745, could write "Sir Charles Grandison is a much more unnatural character than Caliban," may have been a poetaster but was certainly not a fool. [4] He died in Pinner, Middlesex on 11 August 1813. [1] He is buried in Pinner's parish church of St John the Baptist. [5] Pye married twice. He had two daughters by his first wife.
Portrait and signature of J. Gordon Coogler, from the frontispiece of his Purely Original Verse.. John Brown Gordon Coogler (December 3, 1865 – September 9, 1901) was a self-taught American poet who achieved notoriety during his lifetime as a prolific producer of bad verse.
The Poetaster, comedy (performed 1601; printed 1602) Sejanus His Fall, tragedy (performed 1603; printed 1605) Eastward Ho, comedy (performed and printed 1605), a collaboration with John Marston and George Chapman; Volpone, comedy (c. 1605 –06; printed 1607) Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, comedy (performed 1609; printed 1616)
Julia Ann Moore (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 bad poetry. Biography
Mrs. Moore. This year Poetaster Julia A. Moore's first book of verse, The Sentimental Song Book, was published in Grand Rapids, and quickly went into a second printing.A copy fell into the hands of one James F. Ryder, a Cleveland, Ohio, publisher who recognized its awful majesty and soon republished it under the title The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public.