poetizer

poetizer

English

Etymology

poetize +‎ -er

Noun

poetizer (plural poetizers)

1. An inferior poet.
   • 1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies (page 263)

     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 […]

   • A. B. Douglas, The Spirit Lamp (page 22)

     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.