Poean

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1. Synonym of Poe-esque (“of or relating to Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), the American poet and writer best known for tales of the macabre and mystery, or to his works; also, suggestive, or in the style, of Poe's works; especially, eerie, Gothic, macabre”).

   The Poean hero must know what lies shrouded in mystery, must confront what he most fears.

   1986, Arthur Krystal, “Poe, Edgar Allan”, in Jack Sullivan, editor, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (A Promised Land Production), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 324, column 1

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   The reader may judge for himself of the Poeän echoes in the following stanzas from the collections of 1851 and 1853:— […]

   1902, James A[lbert] Harrison, “Appendix: Poe and [Thomas Holley] Chivers”, in Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison and R[obert] A[rmistead] Stewart, The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe […], New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company, →OCLC, page 276

   The work [English Notes (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe] is a biting satire and in part an able parody on Dicken's [Charles Dickens'] American book. The British character, customs and literary men are treated with a typically Poean vindictiveness.

   1917 November, “The Finest Collection of Books and Manuscripts of Edgar Allan Poe ever Offered for Sale [An Unknown Book by Edgar Allan Poe]”, in Books, Broadsides, and Autograph Letters Relating to America […] Offered for Sale by the Rosenbach Company […] (Catalogue no. 19), Philadelphia, Pa.: Rosenbach Company, →OCLC, paragraph 1004, page 189

   Synonyms: Poeish, Poe-like, Poe-esque