poetastery

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noun

Inferior poetry.

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Meanings

nounpoetastery (usually uncountable, plural poetasteries)

plural poetasteries

  1. uncountableusuallyInferior poetry.

    As Poetry is totally distinct from Poetastery, so is Criticism not to be confounded with Criticastricism.

    1860, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society, Vol. 1, p. 129 (Google preview)
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    We rarely sentimentalized consciously, and still more seldom openly, about the present state of Venice as contrasted with her past glory. I am glad to say that we despised the conventional poetastery about her.

    1867, William Dean Howells, chapter 22, in Venetian Life

    Compare but the northern poets — and they were all improvisers — with the lamentable poetastery of the Roman emperors which Suetonius quotes.

    1896, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, Volume 211, page 685

Origin

From poetaster + -y.

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