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poetizer

noun

Etymology

From poetize + -er.

  1. derived from ποιητής
  2. derived from poēta
  3. derived from poete
  4. inherited from poete
  5. suffixed as poetize — “poet + ize”
  6. suffixed as poetizer — “poetize + er”

Definitions

  1. An inferior poet.

    • It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]
    • Browning and Tennyson cannot be set aside as poetasters, but surely they are often only poetizers. They have got some wretched philosophy they want to express, and we feel them straining after it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA