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• a  of or relating to poetry
• s  characteristic of or befitting poetry

• Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can .
• English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people".
• Admirers of Ondaatje's spare, yet poetical prose will find much to enjoy.

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News & Articles

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• Sir Walter Scott novels to be in next silent auction in Redlands
  The current silent auction of old and rare books sponsored by the Friends of the A.K. Smiley Public Library offers "The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore," the Waverly Novels by Sir Walter Scott and "Healthyland," published by Hygeia, the health magazine of the American Medical Association.
  July 10, 2013 - Redlands Daily Facts

Quotes

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• Edgar Allan Poe in Austin 360
  Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
• Sergei Sobyanin in Pravda
  The text of the anthem is a whole musical and poetical work. Any editing of this work disregards the historical and cultural context of the anthem creation and can alter the original conceptual direction of the work,Sobyanin said in his...
• Oscar Wilde in AZ Central.com
  Absinthe has a wonderful color - green,wrote Oscar Wilde, known to have downed a dram or two. "A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"