Poetaster (/poʊɪtæstər/), like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications...

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...

writer, who fancied himself as a poet, earning the derisive label of poetaster. Pye was born in London, the son of Henry Pye of Faringdon House in Berkshire...

the free dictionary. Accentual verse Crambo Knittelvers Nonsense poetry Poetaster "Doggerel". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 18 September 2014. Harper, Douglas...

(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...

3:35 "Hold Your Secrets to Your Heart" - 3:37 "Little Trees" - 4:26 "Poetaster" 3:57 "Five Roses" - 3:22 "Blasphemy" - 4:52 "Fortune" - 3:05 "This Thing...

Oleaster, signifying a plant like an olive, but less valuable (cf. poetaster), may be applied to: Feral olive trees that have been allowed to run wild...

a tragedian. An "Aristius Fuscus" also appears in Ben Jonson's comedy Poetaster (1601). Broughton R. The Magistrates of The Roman Republic. — New York...

Burton eloquently wrote about Somalia: "The country teems, with 'poets, poetasters, poetitoes, poetaccios': every man has his recognized position in literature...

Gems respectively.[citation needed] Poetry portal Scottish literature Poetaster McGonagall, William (1878). "A Summary History of Poet McGonagall". Archived...

Julia as the figure Corinna in Ovid's Amores. In Ben Jonson's comedy play Poetaster (1601), Julia is the romantic interest of Ovid. The play itself is commonly...

Histriomastix, and Thomas Dekker. Jonson attacked the two poets again in Poetaster (1601). Dekker responded with Satiromastix, subtitled "the untrussing...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Versifier may refer to: one who creates verse Poetaster, a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets Versification (disambiguation)...

British Railways as part of the Beeching cuts. Crieff was praised by the poetaster William McGonagall in "Crieff". "Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish...

inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady, 1696 Six familiar essays upon...

and rumors of his ghost haunting Westminster Hall and Burying Ground. Poetaster Rudolph Valentino's "Woman in Black" (January 20, 1977). To warm chilled...

over "the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters" that pass as sonnets in the literary reviews of her day. The example...

quality of work suffered by previous title holders, "as a succession of poetasters had churned out conventional and obsequious odes on royal occasions."...

abandoned in his youth. He meets and hospitably entertains an invidious poetaster, Nicholas Greene, who proceeds to find fault with Orlando's writing. Later...

(Volume I) Every Man in His Humour - Every Man out of His Humour - The Poetaster (Volume II) Bartholomew Fair - Cynthia's Revels; or, The Fountain of Self-Love...

rhymes amid poetic steam, a Sort of Lord Byron. Byron was long dead. This poetaster had to do instead. From Emma Lazarus's An Epistle Master and Sage, greetings...

"maker" allopoiesis, autopoiesis, onomatopoeia, piyyut, poem, poesy, poet, poetaster, poetic, poiesis pol- pole Greek πόλος (pólos) dipole, polar pole- sell...

campaign in 218 BC. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who characterizes Isyllus as a "poetaster without talent and a farcical politician," has written an elaborate treatise...

most likely acted by the Children of Paul's. Jonson responded with The Poetaster (1601), by the Children of the Chapel again, in which Jonson portrays...

he writes The City of the Sun. June (approximate) – Ben Jonson's The Poetaster is performed on stage for the first time. July – Lancelot Andrewes becomes...

the Dunciad, Book III, Pope has Bavius dip the transmigrating souls of poetasters in Lethe, making them doubly stupid before being born as hack writers...

of plays about town"; Jonson lampooned Dekker as Demetrius Fannius in Poetaster and as Anaides in Cynthia's Revels. Dekker's riposte, Satiromastix, performed...

delivering the prologue to the play may have been a parody of Ben Jonson's Poetaster. Although positioned between the Histories and the Tragedies in the First...

Master Constable, or The Spaniards Night-Walke published Ben Jonson – The Poetaster published Sir David Lyndsay (died c. 1555) – Humanity and Sensuality and...

Every Man in His Humour Every Man out of His Humour Cynthia's Revels Poetaster Sejanus His Fall Eastward Hoe Volpone Epicœne, or The Silent Woman The...