Crossword-Solution: POETASTERS
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
NVET
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Sentences with POETASTERS (5)
Some of the poetasters were heavy enough; others were not wanting in address; and the duchess herself was among those who most excelled.
Fraught with invective they ne'er go To folks at Paternoster Row: No judges, fiddlers, dancing-masters, No pickpockets, or poetasters Are known to honest quadrupeds: No single brute his fellows leads.
Johnson omitted him from the “Lives of the Poets,” though space was found for half a score of poetasters whose names are to be found nowhere else.
The little book came out, inspired by "all the poetasters." Christopher North wrote, four years later, in _Blackwood's Magazine_, a tardy review.
This is an example of a class of writing which may be passed over too lightly by those whom poetasters have made distrustful of poetry.
Quotes with POETASTERS (1)
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2012).