Creator of lines, dissolute chap penning bad poem meets resistance (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
rope maker
'creator of lines dissolute chap' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'penning bad poem meets resistance' is the wordplay.
'penning' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bad' is an anagram indicator.
'meets resistance' becomes 'raker' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'poem' with letters rearranged gives 'opem'.
'opem' inserted into 'raker' is 'ROPE-MAKER'.
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