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Doesn't poesy cover tuhin's question?
which sense, this one?
c: artificial, precious, or sentimentalized poetic writing
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If you are speaking of, say, classical Latin poetry vs. modern free verse vs. Elizabethan sonnets, you might argue for using a plural of poetry and I would go with poetries.
it is of this which I agree.
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"The idea of belles lettres is in itself a French concept, and French poetry does stand apart even from the poetries of other Romance languages in its lyricism."
This from a website on translating Rimbaud.
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just to be contrary, what would be wrong with recasting M's example as "French poetry does stand apart even from the poetry of other Romance languages in its lyricism."
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nothing.
Of which this thread is much to do about.
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> Of which this thread is much to do about. pure poetry, Milo. 
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The problem isn't the plural per se; it's that the plural changes the meaning of the noun radically.
What IP said. Meanwhile, I've heard "music" pluralized, and in the context, it makes sense.
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As in:
"The idea of belles lettres is in itself a French concept, and French poetry does stand apart even from the poetries of other Romance languages in its lyricism."
This from a website on translating Rimbaud.
So why are you chasing him?
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So why are you chasing him?
Chasing whom? 
To go back to the poetry of this fred, I agree that pluralising "poetry" adds another connotation to the basic meaning of the word (if "poetry" can ever be said to have a basic meaning). It stresses the plurality, in a context where you are possibly counting or enumerating or classifying poetries rather than looking into the art itself.
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