Literary Criticism. Designating certain 17th-cent. poets (esp. Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, and Traherne) or their poetic style…

Metaphysical.

Of or pertaining to the Lake poets; resembling the productions of those poets. rare.

Chiefly literary and poetic. Of, belonging to, or designating a school of French poetry of the latter half of the 19th cent., whose members…

spec. Of, designating, or characteristic of British literature of the early years of George V's reign, esp. that which appeared in the five…

Of or relating to imagism in literature (see imagism, n. 1).

An adherent of unanimism. Also attributive or as adj.

Of the nature of imagism or relating to imagism or imagists (in any sense).

Of, belonging to, or relating to the Acmeists or Acmeism.

With capital initial. An adherent of Ultraism (additions 2). Also attributive or as adj.

attributive. Designating, belonging, or relating to a school of projective poets (cf. projective, adj. 6) led by Charles Olson (1910–70) who taught…

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of spatialism.