epigonism
English
Etymology
Noun
epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms)
- An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
- 1948, William Van O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry
- 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 […]
- 1948, William Van O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry
- The product of an epigone.