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Keats referred to himself as a “camelion Poet”: “the poet has . . . no identity—he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God’s Creatures.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2018

An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few of his forty and more thousand lines are unpoetical; in certainty of style amongst English poets who have written profusely, he has no equals but Chaucer, Milton and Shelley.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

A very unpoetical Sonnet closes Chapter XI. of the last Part, and, since it is not referred to in the text and its language is modern, may possibly have been interpolated.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Azurara, Gomes Eannes de