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Popian, a. (and n.)|ˈpəʊpɪən|
Also Poˈpean, Poˈpeian.
[f. Pope, proper name + -ian.]
Of or pertaining to the poet Alexander Pope (or his poetry). Popian couplet: a heroic couplet in the manner of Pope. Also as n., an imitator of Pope.
1802A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 33 The ear may be contented to want the luxury of the Popean numbers. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 121 Neither Rogers nor Campbell are Popeans. They belong to another school—the sentimental. 1865Sat. Rev. 9 Dec. 738/1 Taken as a translator of the Popian school,..Mr. Worsley deserves to rank very high. 1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 136 One of several evidences that the Popean couplet existed before Pope had produced anything which any one felt it desirable to imitate. 1895W. D. Howells My Literary Passions 55, I..hammered away at my blessed Popean heroics till nine, when I went regularly to bed, to rise again at five. 1914J. A. Roy Cowper & his Poetry 54 He [sc. Johnson] failed to remark the absence of the Popeian inversions in the seemingly orthodox verse. 1953R. Fuller Second Curtain v. 74 What nourishment could he give his Popean young poet? 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Mar. 275/1 There is no philistine repudiation of the achievements of Popeian scholarship. |