"epigonism" meaning in English

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          "text": "Such a form of epigonism seems explicable only in that the authors, having no poetic sensibilities of their own, appropriate a poetry with which, presumably, they grew up. An even less excusable form of epigonism is the fairly frequent […]",
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        "The product of an epigone."
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