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