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
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no Identity—he is continually in for and filling some other body.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
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 Gomes Eannes de Azurara
