poetical.

To this department of fiction, in which the imagination is allowed to wander far beyond the bounds of real life and probability, the Germans apply distinctively the term poetical.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

It wasn't often Mormon showed any touch of what Sam characterized as poetical.

Rimrock Trail 1906

And besides many sayings which share in some degree their merit, there are occasional passages which rise, at least, to the height of graceful rhetoric if they are scarcely to be called poetical.

Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868

Remarkable as this narrative is for simple grandeur, it has nothing in it which can be properly called poetical.

Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture. 1821-1902 1860

His "philosophical observations" have a much better claim to the title of "poetical."

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806