poetic license
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Rachel Syme’s foreword to the musical book says that this version of “Ironic” turns it into “an inside joke about poetic license and grammatical errors.”
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
“Bedewed it with his tears and bid to it an everlasting adieu” is the stuff of poetic license and bad poetry.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024
What a fraught act of poetic license, and it won’t be the last in this surprising novel about the plight of displaced people.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021
Whether accurate or poetic license, “Chuck E.'s in Love” was Jones’ breakthrough and cemented Weiss’ legend in the American pop imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2021
On the other hand, perhaps Mr. Burns was using his poetic license.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
