Poean

English

Etymology

From Poe +‎ -an.

Adjective

Poean (comparative more Poean, superlative most Poean)

1. Pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe (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

Anagrams

• -pnoea, Epona, Paone, Peano, paeon