Second-drawer

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Second-rate; mediocre. not-comparable

    "[…] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them."

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"[…] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them."

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