Parnassian

adj.
Of or relating to poetry.

n.
A member of a school of late 19th-century French poets whose work is characterized by detachment and emphasis on metrical form.

[From Latin Parnassius, of Parnassus, from Greek parnāsios, after Parnāsos (Parnassus), a mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses. N., from French parnassien, after Le Parnasse contemporain, the group's first anthology of poetry (1866), from Parnasse, Parnassus, from Latin Parnassus, from Greek Parnāsos.]

Parnassian Par·nas'si·an adj.

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Of or related to poetry, after Parnassus, a mountain in Greece with two summits; one summit was consecrated to Bacchus, the other to Apollo and the Muses, thus Parnassus was regarded as the seat of poetry and music.