Unlike Juvenal, Johnson attempts to sympathize with his poetic subjects.

A great poet may be a very ignorant man in other ways, and have no real concrete knowledge on his own poetic subjects.

But, with slight exception, those particulars of the storm here detailed are not poetic subjects.

Take, for example, Pam Nolan's studies of the equinox moon, a poetic subject that transcends geographic distinction.

While Plath's poetic subject was, over and above everything else, herself, Hughes externalized his feelings: his poetry spoke of nature, landscape, myth, blood, magic.

In 1846 Baudelaire proclaimed, "The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects."

According to the Flemish Literature Fund, his "analytical approach of poetic subjects produces a remarkable effect: funny, incisive and unsettling all at once.

Parisian life", wrote Baudelaire in 1846 "is rich in poetic and wonderful subjects.

They weren't ostensibly about the great poetic subjects: mortality, good versus evil and beauty and truth and the like.

He often took classical and poetic subjects.