Definition of "bardolatry" [bardolatry]

• Excessive or religious worship of William Shakespeare (noun)

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• "When I come upon essays like this one, ostensibly defending Shakespeare from all of his many supposed detractors, I also come as close as I ever do to feeling sympathy for the academic critics who have rejected "bardolatry" and used Shakespeare as one more opportunity to "depreciate the merely literary" (Sven Birkerts) and politicize literary study to advance their own agendas."
• "If Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a catechism of bardolatry, then this is the holy book, no?"
• "I rather fancy the image of Bloom whose essays and books about Shakespeare are the catechism of bardolatry, a secular religion with a passionate following as a blend of Quixote and Lancelot."