unrecapturable

He further emphasized - in his scholarly essay "The Monsters and the Critics" - what he called the "unrecapturable magic" of ancient English verse.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

Note that Tolkien calls this poetry's magic "unrecapturable."

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

Note that Tolkien calls this poetry's magic "unrecapturable."

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

He further emphasized - in his scholarly essay "The Monsters and the Critics" - what he called the "unrecapturable magic" of ancient English verse.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

Note that Tolkien calls this poetry's magic "unrecapturable."

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

He further emphasized - in his scholarly essay "The Monsters and the Critics" - what he called the "unrecapturable magic" of ancient English verse.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

Note that Tolkien calls this poetry's magic "unrecapturable."

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

He further emphasized - in his scholarly essay "The Monsters and the Critics" - what he called the "unrecapturable magic" of ancient English verse.

'The Word Exchange' book review: Old English poetry isn't lost in translation Michael Dirda 2011

For those minds that convened in Springfield, this fear of the future has the skeptics running like lemmings back to the unrecapturable past.

Richard Stuebi: A Tale of Two Cities 2009

Yet the night returning, her mood once more veering, and she as well as he hurrying to meet somewhere — only later, in the silence of the middle night, to slip into this unlighted room which was proving so much more of a Paradise than either might ever know again — so wild and unrecapturable is the fever of youth.

An American Tragedy 2004