What does unpoetical mean?
Unpoetical means not poetical.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
not poetical.
[…] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which, unpoetical in its over-wealth of geographical detail, is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
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Unpoetical means not poetical.
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[…] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which, unpoetical in its over-wealth of geographical detail, is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
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