Sentence:  Such a form of <WSD>epigonism</WSD> 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 <WSD>epigonism</WSD> is the fairly frequent ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.