Keats was nothing more than an obscure Poetaster; he had a few friends who believed in him, but which of them would have dared to predict the volume and magnitude of his subsequent fame?
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
He was a tolerable, and at least an enthusiastic antiquarian, a more than tolerable Poetaster; and he had a prodigious budget full of old ballads and songs, which he loved better to teach and I to learn, than all the 'Latin, Greek, geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes,' which my poor father had so sedulously bargained for.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Poetaster and literary hack, Whetstone, who wrote a poetical memoir of George Gascoigne after his death, entitles it a remembrance of "the well employed life and godly end" of his hero.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury