epigoni

There is a tendency, not by any means among the greater writers, but among what may be called the epigoni, -- the satellites of literature, the men who would be great if they knew how, -- to speak of the business of writing as if it were a sacred mystery, pontifically celebrated, something remote and secret, which must be guarded from the vulgar and the profane, and which requires an initiation to comprehend.

Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

OOPS I just caught the subliminal “nig” in my word “nightmare” & “pig” in my word “epigoni”.

A few more thoughts about the Clinton ad with the letters "NIG" on the sleeping child's pajamas. Ann Althouse 2008

Now Freud, Marx, and their many epigoni (and anticipators) criticize religious belief; they purport to find something wrong with it; they are masters of suspicion 'and (at any rate in their own view) unmask it.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

There are also two celebrity epigoni: Camille Paglia, whose style is a virtual pastiche of Kael's but who (such is the anxiety of influence) has hardly ever mentioned her name in print; and the Hollywood Wunderkind Quentin Tarantino, who mentions her name at almost every opportunity.

Finding It at the Movies Menand, Louis 1995

But she had produced a generation of epigoni, and although the moment for it has long since passed, the manner of appreciation she invented has become the standard manner of popular culture criticism in America.

Finding It at the Movies Menand, Louis 1995

Many defenses of Popper by his supporters and epigoni claim that he has been egregiously misunderstood by his critics; the critics are asked to read what Popper has actually written and reformulate or clarify their criticism.

The Karl Popper Problem Miller, David 1983

Neither Keats nor Shelley was machine-gunned in Flanders, but their followers or epigoni were, and Byron went out to fight for Greece and fell at Missolonghi, of a fever, not far from the scene of Rupert Brooke's death, from blood poisoning, in 1915.

Hello to All That Miller, Karl 1975

It is not merely that the epigoni of the post-Aristotelian schools lacked originality, rather the topic seems to lapse into neglect.

ART AND PLAY JULIUS A. ELIAS 1968

With the appearance of On the Road almost a decade ago, and the subsequent follow-up 'novels,' Kerouac Country became holy ground for a multitude of epigoni or publicists, and, of course, fair game for others.

Our Gang Mazzocco, Robert 1965

But after the newly opened fields have been exhausted the epigoni can do little but recombine, often in fantastic ways, the old elements; public taste turns from them and demands something new.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910