Castalianadj.
Of Castalia or the Muses. Also absol.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > relating to the muse
musical1490
Heliconian1557
Pierian1591
Castalian1602
1602 J. Beaumont Metamorph. Tabacco sig. E3 Had the Castalian Muses knowne the place.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 274 Th' inspir'd Castalian Spring. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 251 Lips wet with Castalian dews.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash iii. ii. 41 He had better have the courage to plunge into the Castalian stream, like Virgil and Lucan.
1882 G. M. Hopkins Let. 4 Nov. in Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 159 What I call Castalian or Parnassian, that is the language of poetry draping prose thought.
Derivatives
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun]
versifierc1340
poeta1382
metrera1387
sayer?a1400
makerc1460
metrician?a1475
metrist?1545
singer1560
swannetc1560
songster1584
muse1596
Castalianist1607
metre-maker1611
versificator1611
swan1613
versemaker1647
verseman1652
Parnassian1658
bard1667
factist1676
poetic1687
minstrel1718
shaper1816
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 53 This made the Castalianist or poet of yore, to be esteemed.
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