pseudo-poetic

Updated: May 28, 2025

But the letters of Sterne's courtship maintain the pseudo-poetic, shepherd-and-shepherdess strain throughout; or, if the lover ever abandons it, it is only to make somewhat maudlin record of those "tears" which flowed a little too easily at all times throughout his life.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne