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poetic, a. and n.|pəʊˈɛtɪk|
Also 6–7 poetique, 7 -icke, 7–8 -ick.
[a. F. poétique (a 1400 in Godef. Compl.), ad. L. poētic-us, a. Gr. ποητικός, ποιητικός, f. πο(ι)ητής poet: see -ic. So It., Sp. poético.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging or proper to poets or poetry. In quot. 1610, Fictitious, fabulous. poetic diction, diction used in or considered to be proper to poetry (see diction 4).
poetic justice, licence: see the ns.
1530Palsgr. 321/1 Poeticke in maners, poetique. 1585James I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 13 This onely thing I earnestly requyre, That thou my veine Poetique so inspyre. 1610Healey St. Aug. City of God xviii. viii. (1620) 626 Her [Minerva's] originall was vnknowne, for that of Ioues braine is absolutely poetique. a1687Waller To Ld. Admiral Wks. (1729) 47 With courage guard, and beauty warm, our age; And lovers fill with like poetic rage. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Wks. (1701) III. Introd. 4 The God of Musick and Poetique Fires. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 52 Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale. 1786Burns Brigs of Ayr 38 What warm, poetic heart, but inly bleeds, And execrates man's savage, ruthless deeds! 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 127 An unjustifiable poetick licence. 1800Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) i. Pref. p. xxi, There will..be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction. Ibid. p. xxvii, The distinction of rhyme and metre is regular and uniform, and not, like that which is produced by what is usually called poetic diction, arbitrary and subject to infinite caprices. 1815G. F. Nott Works of Henry Howard & Sir T. Wyatt I. p. clxxxviii, Chaucer did much towards refining our poetic diction, but he left it..open to subsequent innovation and experiment. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, ‘My friend Mr. Snodgrass has a strong poetic turn’, said Mr. Pickwick. 1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. ii. 185 The poetic faculty..secures to those who have it the admiration of every person. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 859/2 As a mere question of methods, a reaction against the poetic diction of Pope and his followers was inevitable. 1928O. Barfield Poetic Diction: Study in Meaning 177 The stale Miltonics, which lay at the bottom of so much eighteenth-century ‘poetic diction’. 1938A. Campbell Battle of Brunanburh 41 Despite the wealth of poetic diction at his command, he can be, at times, astonishingly simple and direct. 1951C. Day Lewis Poet's Task 5, I hope to devote a number of..lectures to what is called, somewhat uninvitingly, ‘poetic diction’. 1970M. Swanton Dream of Rood 59 The highly formalised nature of Old English poetic diction.
2. a. That is a poet.
a1640Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 37 What Perseus..spoke of the Crowe-poets..may trewlie be said..of vs poeticke⁓pies in this adge. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 303 The great reformer of our poetry..was the poetic Earl of Surrey.
b. Of a poet or poets.
1712–14Pope Rape Lock v. 124 Markt by none but quick, poetic eyes. 1780Cowper Table Talk 768 'Twould thin the ranks of the poetic tribe. 1791― Retired Cat 89 A long and melancholy mew, Saluting his poetic ears. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 71 Chapman was a poet worthy of our great poetic period.
3. a. Of the nature of poetry; consisting of or written in verse; = poetical 3.
1656Sir J. M[ennis] & J. S[mith] (title) Musarum Delicæ: or the Muses Recreation. Conteining severall Pieces of Poetique Wit. 1749Power Pros. Numbers 38 When Prosaic Numbers are too much bound, the Stile is Poetic Prose; when Poetic Numbers are too free, it is Prosaic Poetry. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. 377 A poetic paraphrase of certain portions of the service.
b. Having the style or character proper to poetry as a fine art; poetically beautiful or elevated.
1854Milman Lat. Chr. iii. vi. (1864) II. 78 Producing a vast mass of what was truly poetic. 1877Shairp Poetic Interpr. Nat. viii. 110 In our own day such poetic descriptions of Nature have burst the bonds of metre altogether, and filled many a splendid page of poetic or imaginative prose.
4. Relating to or dealing with poetry. (= poetical 4.) Also, fond of poetry, able to appreciate poetry.
a1704T. Brown Prol. 1st Sat. Persius Wks. 1730 I. 51 My verse has never yet stood trial Of Poetick Smiths. 1817Jane Austen Sanditon (1925) 91, I have read several of Burn's Poems with great delight..but I am not poetic enough to separate a Man's poetry entirely from his Character. 1867Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 332 Wordsworth..talked a great deal; about ‘poetic’ correspondents of his own (i.e. correspondents for the sake of his poetry; especially one such who had sent him, from Canton, an excellent chest of tea).
5. Celebrated in poetry; affording a subject for poetry. (Cf. historic a. 2.)
1742Pope Dunc. iv. 489 While thro' Poetic scenes the Genius roves. 1883Warner Roundabout Journ. xi. 94 When you are on the east coast of Sicily you are in the most poetic locality of the classic world.
6. In etymological sense of Gr. ποιητικός: Making, creative; relating to artistic creation. rare.
1872Morris tr. Ueberweg's Hist. Philos. I. (Cent.), Poetic philosophy is a form of knowledge having reference to the shaping of material, or to the technically correct and artistic creation of works of art. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. 57 [God] becomes a true Creator, with poetic function (ποιητής) as disposer of the ideas.
B. n.
†1. A writer of poetry, a poet. Obs.
c1650J. Parry To Cleveland C.'s Wks. (1687) 286 Where all Poeticks else may truckle under. 16..― Elegy on Cleveland 40 ibid. 285 'Tis your Crime T'upbraid the State-Poeticks of this time.
2. sing. and pl. That part of literary criticism which treats of poetry; also, a treatise on poetry: applied esp. to that of Aristotle. Also in extended senses.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Aristotle's poetics is a work infinitely valued... Horace, Vieta, Vossus, and Scaliger, have likewise published poetics in Latin. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. Pref. 8 It is imagined that Plutarch took it either from his [Aristotle's] Treatise on Music, or the second book of his Poetics. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 335/2 Aristotle's genuine extant works may be divided into three classes: 1. Those relating to the philosophy of the mind... To this head may be referred..his Rhetoric and Poetic: the last of which works is imperfect. 1879M. Pattison Milton xiii. 200 The principle of the Aristotelean Poetic. 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observations 38 With your air indifferent and imperious At a stroke our mad poetics to confute. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 66 Jakobson avoids the term stylistics, preferring instead poetics. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 11/2 To subscribe to this poetic was to doubt the validity of art and the veracity of dreams. 1976Daily Tel. 5 July 10/3 So autonomous are the poetics of Krzysztof Penderecki's compositional techniques, I found it hardly possible to reconcile words and music in his ‘Canticum Canticorum Salomonis’. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 1411/2 It is developed theoretically into an alternative poetic, for literature that classical and Coleridgean poetics are unable to treat with justice: a poetic of architectural as against organic form. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits iii. 102 This notion must be approached through its resonances in what I shall call the poetics of the Freudian corpus.
3. pl. Poetic composition; the writing of poems.
1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iii. (1872) 194 Our valiant friend..was not to be repulsed from his Poetics either by the world's coldness or by mine. |
