poetolatry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
poet + -o- + -latry, coined by C. S. Lewis in 1936.
Noun[edit]
poetolatry (uncountable)
- Excessive or religious worship of poets.
- 1936, C.S. Lewis, Ess. & Stud., volume 21, page 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.