What does poetastery mean?
Poetastery means Inferior poetry..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Inferior poetry..
As Poetry is totally distinct from Poetastery, so is Criticism not to be confounded with Criticastricism.
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.
Compare but the northern poets — and they were all improvisers — with the lamentable poetastery of the Roman emperors which Suetonius quotes.
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Poetastery means Inferior poetry..
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As Poetry is totally distinct from Poetastery, so is Criticism not to be confounded with Criticastricism.
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