单词 | poeticness |
释义 | poeticnessn. rare before 20th cent. In modern use sometimes depreciative. The quality of being poetic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetical quality or style poeticality?1578 poeticnessa1631 poetry1654 poeticalness1835 a1631 J. Donne Litanie in Poems (1633) viii. 175 Pray for mee, That I by them excuse not my excesse In seeking secrets, or Poëtiquenesse. 1967 W. S. Graham Let. 31 Dec. in Nightfisherman (1999) 213 If you persist in your direction of high cerebral utterance and good fear of ‘poeticness’ I think..you will go far. 1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 986/2 What was falsest in Georgian poetry—that commuter's pantheism that draws too easily on the poeticness of nature. 2001 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Final ed.) x16 Maybe if we could find more times to go explore the poeticness and profoundness of the arts, we might be able to find more balance in our lives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1631 |
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