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

an inferior poet.

Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a contemptuous name often applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretentions to artistic value. The term was coined by Ben Jonson in his 1601 play The Poetaster; Jonson applied the term to John Marston and Thomas Dekker, his rivals in the Poetomachia or War of the Theatres.

an inferio' poet. Man