But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

Yup. That story was my first thought:

https://gwern.net/doc/ai/poetry/1974-lem-cyberiad-trurlselec...

I can’t help but be eternally impressed by Lem’s ‘The Cyberiad’. Partly for Lem’s prescience and creativity. But mostly because of just how damn funny he can be.

Maybe we could devise Vogon's simily enchancer?

edit: allegory augmenter