Auge gelassen werden: he (Jonson) had many quarrels with Marston, beat him, and wrote his Poetaster on him.
The changes made are nearly all either tinsel ornaments or mutilations of the traditional text, which an eighteenth century poetaster had sought to dress up to please the modish taste of the period.
The heroic man, who could endure agony and insult, and even thus commemorate his sufferings, with no unpoetical conception, almost degrades his own sublimity when the poetaster sets our teeth on edge by his verse.
Indeed, we question whether the strains of any poetastercan be considered vile, when brought into comparison with this gentleman's verses.
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?
Where is there a Lensky, that youth of eighteen, with the flowing locks and the gushing and would-be-original manners of a poetaster à la Schiller?
There exist, as you are aware, three remarkable personages, whom you know intimately: the feeble poetaster N.
In Marvell's earliest satirical poem he gives an account of a visit he paid in Rome to the unlucky poetaster Flecknoe, who was not in Rome until 1645.
Where thepoetaster once stood the criticaster now stands.
The date is not earlier than that of Ben's satiric play on the poets, The Poetaster (1601), to which reference is made.
And thus before I paid my visits over there, the land was salted with ore and the water enriched with ground-bait, so that when the poetaster appeared he was welcomed by every class as a promoter of International Kindliness.
Well, go thy ways, pursue thy projects, let me alone with this design; my Poetaster shall make thee a play, and thou shalt be a man of good parts in it.
It was no mere conventional commendation, such as we may find prefixed to the works of any poetaster of the time, that Sir Henry Wotton addressed to the author of the Ludlow masque: 'I should much commend the Tragical [i.
But there was another Frederic, the Frederic of Rheinsberg, the fiddler and flute-player, the poetaster and metaphysician.
Here the old poetaster was quite out of patience, and starting up in a fume, cried, "They had even as good rob us of all we have.
Mævius:' a poetaster whose name has been handed down by Virgil and Horace.
The true poet was inspired by Apollo; but a poetasterlike Mævius wrote without inspiration, as it were, in spite of the god.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
