poetastery

English

Etymology

From poetaster +‎ -y.

Noun

poetastery (usually uncountable, plural poetasteries)

1. Inferior poetry.
   • 1860, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society, Vol. 1, p. 129 (Google preview):

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

   • 1867, William Dean Howells, chapter 22, in Venetian Life:

     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.

   • 1896, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, Volume 211, page 685:

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