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English
Etymology
From poetaster + -y.
Noun
poetastery (usually uncountable, plural poetasteries)
- Inferior poetry.
- 1860, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society, Vol. 1, p. 129 (Google preview):
- As Poetry is totally distinct from Poetastery, so is Criticism not to be confounded with Criticastricism.
1867, William Dean Howells, chapter 22, in Venetian Life: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.
1896, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, Volume 211, page 685:Compare but the northern poets — and they were all improvisers — with the lamentable poetastery of the Roman emperors which Suetonius quotes.