bardolatryn.
/bɑːˈdɒlətri/, U.S. /bɑrˈdɑlətri/ Worship of the ‘Bard of Avon’, i.e. Shakespeare. (Occasionally used of other writers.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [noun]
Pindarism1713
Wordsworthianism1829
Byronism1857
Shakespearolatry1864
Goethianism1880
Petrarchism1881
Shakespeareanism1886
Whitmania1887
Omarianism1897
Omarism1898
bardolatry1901
Petrarchanism1927
Miltonizing1936
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > worship of specific writer
bardolatry1901
1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans Pref. p. xxxi So much for Bardolatry!
1963 Punch 26 June 934/3 Those whose Bardolatry..falls this side the ‘Dream’.
Derivatives
bardolater n. /-ˈɒlətə(r)/ [-olater comb. form] a worshipper of the Bard, a Shakespearolater.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [noun] > admirer or imitator of specific poet
Homerist1599
Homeriana1604
Ronsardian1697
Popean1730
Miltonian1748
Pindarist1781
Wordsworthian1812
Petrarchist1823
Byronist1830
papista1849
Goethian1850
Tennysonian1850
Shakespearolater1875
Ronsardist1877
Shelleyite1881
Browningitec1882
Byronian1883
Byronite1884
Shelleyan1886
Whitmanite1887
Keatsian1891
Spenserian1894
Omarian1897
Racinian1898
bardolater1903
Petrarchan1904
Burnsite1909
Thompsonian1913
Omarite1918
Burnsian1920
Shelleyist1934
Whitmanist1934
Dickinsonian1936
Poundian1950
Chattertonian1956
Whitmaniac1959
Whitmanian1977
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > imitation of specific writer > admirer or imitator of specific writer
Shakespearean1837
Marlovian1885
Ibsenite1889
Ibsenist1891
bardolater1903
Shavian1905
Brechtian1959
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman Ep. Ded. 30 Foolish Bardolaters make a virtue of this after their fashion.
1911 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 440/3 Playing for the sympathy of the ‘bardolaters’.
1952 Scrutiny XIX. 13 The writer who found it ‘extremely salutary’ that Milton's eminence should be questioned appears now..a resolute bardolater.
barˈdolatrous adj. tending to or characterized by bardolatry.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [adjective]
Petrarchistical1603
Popish1825
bardolatrous1905
Tennysonianized1916
Miltonizing1936
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [adjective] > specific playwright
Terentian1600
Sophocleana1644
Shakespeareana1754
Plautine1768
Aeschylean1783
Marlowish1798
Websterian1809
Euripidean1821
Aristophanic1827
Fletcherian1850
Marlowesque1884
Senecan1885
Jonsonian1886
Marlovian1887
Ibsenian1891
Ibsenish1893
Pinerotic1895
Shavian1904
bardolatrous1905
Ibsenesque1906
Strindbergian1913
Lylian1923
Chekhovian1925
Sheridanesque1931
Brechtian1935
Vanbrughian1947
Stoppardian1978
1905 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 170/2 The word ‘pity’ does not reach even the third row of the stalls, much less the gaping bardolatrous pit.
1914 G. B. Shaw Dark Lady of Sonnets Pref. in Misalliance 112 The familiar plea of the Bardolatrous ignoramus, that Shakespear's coarseness was part of the manners of his time.
1958 Listener 19 June 1031/1 Could this bud of Bardolatrous love be proved a flower?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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