Meaning of poetastery | Babel Free

Definitions

Inferior poetry.

uncountable, usually

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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