These critical coteries Horace treats, as Catullus treats his 'vile poets, pests of the age,' and as Pope treated Dennis and the other poetasters of his time.
To remember the terms in which he wrote and spoke of Byron, is to think with a smile of all that has been written in these later years by poetasters and critics to Byron's discredit.
All which sensible men deplore in him is that which poetastershave exalted in him.
If our poetasters talk with Wordsworth of the dignity and pathos of the commonest human things, they will find them there in perfection; if they talk about the cravings of the new time, they will find them there.
The wretchedest of poetasters can take courage, when he contemplates the profundity of the depth out of which uprose the greatest poet of his time.
Most of the poets and poetasters of the Court were convinced of this, and the romantic love-making of the Prince, who for the sweet eyes of the Infanta was to make England Catholic, inspired many verses.
The poorest of imitative poetasterscould never have made it wholly dull, and Valerius Flaccus was more than a mere poetaster.
Whatever was the progress of the dispute, it is certain that Shadwell, as zealously attached to the Whig faction as Dryden to the Tories, buckled on his armour among their other poetasters to encounter the champion of royalty.
Although Prior and Montague were first in place and popularity, there wanted not the usual crowd of inferior satirists and poetastersto follow them to the charge.
Still, rightly interpreted, such verse on poetasters is quite in line with the poet's conviction that beauty and genius are inseparable.
There are, of course, certain poetasters now, as always, whose verse is ground out as if by machinery, and who are as little likely to call upon an outside power to aid them as is the horse that treads the cider mill.
He stands in the front rank of philosophical essayists, and is doing more for Australian literature than all the many poetasters and their kind who yearly publish many books, but write little poetry.
Augustus, to which Suetonius alludes, of the indiscreet panegyrics of poetasters by which he was persecuted.
Therefore, in selecting the Middle Ages for their time, our poetasters have greatly erred.
Most devoutly do we trust that both poets and poetasters will henceforth refrain from including Lucifer in their dramatis personæ.
Young poetasters would tremble when their time should come to be pulverised by the scathing epigrams which fell from his anonymous pen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
