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Definition of Poeticalness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poeticalness
Literary usage of Poeticalness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality by Sidney Lanier (1914)
"I have used the expression " most poetical" here with design; for regarded as
pure literature these poems in this particular of poeticalness, ..."
2. Interest Factors in Primary Reading Material by Fannie Wyche Dunn (1921)
"Verse form was lowered in interest value from .113 to .001 (boys) and from .104
to .0058 (girls), and poeticalness from .255 to .1186, and from .151 to ..."
3. The Psalms in a New Version: Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches, with by M. Montagu (1851)
"... it in poeticalness so far as this essentially belongs to The Original; ...
of any in a particular kind of merit and importance that of poeticalness, ..."
4. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"It has, since their disinterment, struck everybody as the most remarkable proof
existing of the irresistible poeticalness of the time, not merely that there ..."
5. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"The dissonances are new, and they are solved in a novel way, and this, too, is
interesting. This poeticalness, imitation, startling effects, ..."
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