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1804 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 141 I think its author has poeticized, if I may be allowed the word, the new and fortunate subject.

1874 Contemp. Rev. 24 870 The working class was..idealized and poeticized by wayward genius.

1964 C. Bukowski Let. 1 May in Screams from Balcony (1998) 107 I think it best to ‘talk’ the poems instead of poeticizing them, make them ‘natural’ as you suggested.

1982 Time Mag. (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Cinema section) 72 A film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness,..its obvious liking for athletes as people, and its refusal (most of the time) to poeticize sport.

1990 New Yorker 5 Feb. 109/2 They're being poeticized, elegized as we see them, but this doesn't strike a false note.

1817 L. Hunt Round Table 152 If I wish to poeticise upon it at home, there is Belinda with her sylphs, drinking it in such state as nothing but poetry can supply.

1850 G. Mazzini Royalty & Republicanism in Italy 169 It pleases you to poeticize over the ruins of an institution, which was sublime.

1971 Times 19 Feb. 11/3 All the sobriety of the book, Alain Fournier's determination not to poeticize, but just to let the poetry emerge, is lost.

1994 Church Times 2 Dec. 19/2 By all means poeticise pseudo-theologically if you want to, but for God's sake..know what you are about.

1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe I. 315 (note) Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship..is a poeticized, civic and domestic story.

2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 17 Feb. d5 Nelofer Pazira played a poeticized version of herself in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 2001 film ‘Kandahar’.

1961 Encounter 17 68 Rossetti appears to me a poeticiser.

1965 New Statesman 22 Oct. 617/3 In the studio, he [sc. Corot] dropped into tame poeticising, due no doubt to what Mr. Gould calls his ‘vein of emotional immaturity’.

1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell xvi. 292 The critics..have quoted the limp translatorese that crops up throughout Imitations: the stale archaism, the mechanical poeticizing.