Meaning of epigonism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
   uncountable, usually
2. The product of an epigone.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“Such a form of epigonism seems explicable only in that the authors, having no poetic sensibilities of their own, appropriate a poetry with which, presumably, they grew up. An even less excusable form of epigonism is the fairly frequent […]”

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