And when is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?

"The most poetical topic in the world," Poe said, "is the death of a beautiful woman."

Ryder's position as perhaps the most poetical of all the American painters of his day has never been questioned seriously.

Poe also often wrote about the death of beautiful women, which he considered the most poetical topic in the world.

It must be the most poetical thing in England.

The common Spaniards have certainly a most poetical way of expressing themselves.

The death of a beautiful woman, he once wrote, "is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

Some of the most poetical pages of the 19th century come from Berlioz.

If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.

When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.