Poetaster vs. Poet

Poetasternoun

An unskilled poet.

Poetnoun

A person who writes poems.

Poetasternoun

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.

‘The talk of forgotten poetasters.’;

Poetnoun

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Poetaster

Poetaster , like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretensions to artistic value.

Poetnoun

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

‘The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.’; ‘A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.’;

Poetnoun

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others.