self-imitation

It is poetry as facsimile, poetry as self-imitation, poetry as garbage in, garbage out.

Anis Shivani: David Lehman's Incestuous Coterie: Why the New 'Best American Poetry' Sucks Even More Than Its Twenty-One Predecessors 2010

(In "Innocent," that prosecutor, now a judge, is charged yet again with the murder of someone close to him.) "I thought it would be self-imitation if, in 1988, I had written a sequel," he said, sipping from a large bottle of water in a midtown Starbucks.

The Return of Rusty Sabich 2010

It is poetry as facsimile, poetry as self-imitation, poetry as garbage in, garbage out.

Anis Shivani: David Lehman's Incestuous Coterie: Why the New "Best American Poetry" Sucks Even More Than Its Twenty-One Predecessors 2010

Yes, the fractal school sparked artists for a while, but it depended on machines, and it, too, was sinking down into sterile self-imitation.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

If it suggested that Mr. Braine had a commendable faith in the possibilities of his character Joe Lampton, it also implied that his novelistic talents, which had never struck one as particularly fertile, were being forced into the sad and dangerous course of self-imitation.

New Novels Bergonzi, Bernard 1965

One of the worst fates that can befall a writer is that of self-imitation: the effort later in life, often desperate, to recapture the tones and themes of youthful beginnings.

Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Sherwood Anderson 1908

It represents the high-water mark of his powers, and serves thereafter as an ideal pattern for his self-imitation.

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876

No Line on the Horizon is U2 playing U2 too, only this time around the U2 self-imitation also encompasses the experimental version of the band heard on

The American Spectator 2009