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poetolatry|pəʊɪˈtɒlətrɪ|
[f. poet + -olatry.]
The worship of poets; immoderate veneration for poets. So poeˈtolater, one who practises poetolatry.
1936C. S. Lewis in Essays & Studies XXI. 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. Ibid. 167 Most poetolaters hold that a dead man has no consciousness. 1939Lewis & Tillyard 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. |