Pindarismn.
/ˈpɪndərɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpɪndəˌrɪz(ə)m/ rare.
Pindaric style; an imitation of, or a passage reminiscent of, Pindar's poetry. Cf. Pindaric n.In quot. 1713, not describing a real illness, but satirizing the unrestrained lyrics of Pindar and his imitators.
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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
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 22 Aug. 2/2 Sometimes she made me foam at the Mouth..and Act a Sort of Madness which the Athenians call the Pindarism.
1790 Galaxy 1 Borne on the wings of Pindarism to the milky way..it seems incumbent on us to endeavour to rescue the poet.
1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. 144 [Celtic poetry] has all through it a sort of intoxication of style,—a Pindarism, to use a word formed on the name of the poet, on whom, above all other poets, the power of style seems to have exercised an inspiring and intoxicating effect.
1912 C. H. Conrad Wright Hist. French Lit. 262 Malherbe transmitted the mythological trappings of Pindarism from Ronsard to Boileau.
1999 H. Kirby-Smith Celestial Twins 176 Pindarism is responsible for some of the worst poetry ever written in English.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1713