poetolatry en · NOUN
Etymology
From poet + -olatry. Apparently coined by C. S. Lewis in 1936: see the quotation.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Excessive or religious worship of poets.
There is yet another way in which Personal Heresy offends against personality; […] I am referring to the growth of what may be called Poetolatry.
1936, C.S. Lewis, Ess. & Stud., volume 21, page 165: