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Poean - What does it mean?

Definition of 'Poean'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Pertaining to (1809-1849), American writer and poet best known for tales of mystery and the macabre, or to his works.
  • * 1902 , Edgar Allan Poe, James Albert Harrison, Robert Armistead Stewart, Charles William Kent, The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe
  • The reader may judge for himself of the Poean echoes in the following stanzas from the collections of 1851 and 1853...
  • * 1917 , Rosenbach Company, Books, Broadsides, and Autograph Letters Relating to America
  • The British character, customs and literary men are treated with a typically Poean vindictiveness.
  • * 1986 , Jack Sullivan, The Penguin encyclopedia of horror and the supernatural
  • The Poean hero must know what lies shrouded in mystery...

    See also

    * Poesque

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