poetolatryn.
/ˌpəʊᵻˈtɒlətri/, U.S. /ˌpoʊəˈtɑlətri/ The worship or immoderate veneration of poets.
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poetolatry1936
1936 C. S. Lewis in Ess. & Stud. 21 165 There is yet another way in which Personal Heresy offends against personality;..I am referring to the growth of what may be called Poetolatry.
1939 E. M. W. Tillyard & C. S. Lewis Personal Heresy v. 104 Naturalism..wants poets to be a separate race of great souls or mahatmas. Poetolatry is the natural result, for if there were such a race..those who know no higher deity would do well to worship them.
1979 G. Graff Lit. against Itself ii. 36 Poetolatry's glorification of the artist as a demigod and philistinism's denigration of him as an irresponsible social deviant.
2000 E. Alsen New Romanticism iii. 241 Romantic ‘poetolatry’ has produced a tradition of phoney..individuality.
Derivatives
poeˈtolater n. a person who practises poetolatry; a worshipper of poets.
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poetolater1936
1936 C. S. Lewis in Ess. & Stud. 21 167 Most poetolaters hold that a dead man has no consciousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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