单词 | poetese |
释义 | poetesen. The language supposed to be characteristic of poets, esp. when self-consciously literary or mannered in style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] poetic diction1714 Parnassian1864 poetese1948 1948 I. J. C. Brown No Idle Words 53 Has Empery, ‘the power, status, or dominion of an Emperor’, become entirely ‘poetese’? In a leading article it would look a trifle odd. 1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1049/1 Mr. Bridson, choosing rhymed verse, never let it aspire to the high-poetic style or fall to ‘poetese’. 1990 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 8 July 16 This is because it is not written in any vernacular, other than a kind of mid-Atlantic Poetese, Poeticalish, Poesian or whatever you call pseudo-poetic diction. 2001 Poetry Corner Internat. in soc.culture.welsh 13 Mar. It's actually quite beautiful in a melancholic way (if you lost the poetese ‘twixt’, that is). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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