Poetaster
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"Rhymester" redirects here. For the hip-hop group, see Rhymester (group). For the Elizabethan play, see Poetaster (play).
Poetaster (/poʊɪtæstər/), like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretensions to artistic value. The word was coined in Latin by Erasmus in 1521.[1] It was first used in English by Ben Jonson in his 1600 play Cynthia's Revels;[2] immediately afterwards Jonson chose it as the title of his 1601 play Poetaster. In that play the "poetaster" character is a satire on John Marston, one of Jonson's rivals in the Poetomachia or War of the Theatres.[3]