1875 E. M. Hale (ed. 4) II. 219 This beautiful plant—the trailing Arbutus—..has been used for very non-poetic purposes.
1925 I. A. Richards 250 In ordinary, non-poetic, non-imaginative experience.
1997 50 280/2 The rewards that ‘close readings’ of a variety of texts—poetic and non-poetic, literary and non-literary—offer.