Poetolatry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive or religious worship of poets. uncountable

    "There is yet another way in which Personal Heresy offends against personality; ... I am referring to the growth of what may be called Poetolatry."

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"There is yet another way in which Personal Heresy offends against personality; ... I am referring to the growth of what may be called Poetolatry."

Etymology

From poet + -o- + -latry, coined by C. S. Lewis in 1936.

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