| 单词 | Poeesque |
| 释义 | Poeesque, a.|pəʊˈɛsk|
Also Poesque, Poe-esque.
[f. the name of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49), American author, + -esque.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling E. A. Poe or his work. Also as quasi-n.
1919Times Lit. Suppl. 19 June 335/1 Mr. Harvey's ‘The Beast with Five Fingers’ is tinged with the Poesque. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record 38 To a stranger they [sc. crows] give the English countryside a terrible and sinister, Poeesque atmosphere. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. xi. 154 He was at a loss to imagine precisely what would indicate any impending disaster, short of some obvious and Poesque symptom like a great fissure in the school walls. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 611/3 [Edmund] Wilson's future biographers may want to make something of the Poe-esque inclination.
Similarly Poeana |pəʊˈɑːnə|, objects associated with E. A. Poe; publications by or about Poe; ˈPoeish a.; ˈPoeishly adv.; ˈPoeist, a student or devotee of Poe's works; ˈPoe-like a.
1908Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 4/2 There appeared in Paris, in 1836, Gautier's Poe-like story ‘La Morte Amoureuse’. 1925H. Acton in Oxf. Poetry 7 And oh, the Poe-like harmonies of bells! 1929Wyndham Lewis Let. 20 Feb. (1963) 187 My reply to this Poeist..is that Poe would not have found my writing ‘difficult’. 1955N. & Q. May 223/1 All Poeana has been enthusiastically collected for seventy years. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 9 Oct. 24/3, I like the plantation owner brooding Poeishly over the corpse of his too-well-beloved sister. 1977Amer. N. & Q. XV. 70/1 While several contemporary reviewers saw ‘Poeish’ similarities in Melville's writings, modern critics..have found little reason to suspect that Melville was influenced by Poe. |
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