The symposium was an aristocratic institution often held to celebrate a young man's entry into adult society, an athletic victory, or a poetic achievement.

There would appear to be no valid reason why poetic achievement should not be analysed by philosophical or even psychological methods.

This was also an era that came to be associated with significant poetic achievements.

His skill and sure instinct make this book one of the important poetic achievements of our time.

In fact, disappointingly, Pinsky spends little time on his subject's poetic achievement.

During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.

She is the 52d recipient of the award, given for "distinguished poetic achievement."

Quatrains are sometimes argued as the greatest popular poetic achievement in Egypt in the last 50 years.

Although modest in their poetic achievement, they helped to sustain the tenuous thread of the Slovene literary language which led back to Trubar.

In 1984 the Academy of American Poets gave Francis its award for distinguished poetic achievement.