Poetling

Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume.

The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.

"No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year," Whitman wrote in "Eighteen Sixty-One," Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano, But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, [...]

Poetlings - a new word to you? It was for me until written down on paper! I can't even brag about inventing it, for it just appeared. The word seems "natural' - created as a docent juggled two fertile thoughts converging, like children in her groups [...]