poetic
adjective
possessing the qualities or charm of poetry.
Example Sentences
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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
Allegory is used as an elegant method of avoiding unpoetical plainness, and is an easy means of substituting logic for imagination.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
If good taste, culture, and devotion to the Muses could make a man a poet in an unpoetical age, Statius would be counted among the great poets of Rome.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
