cento
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Author’s Note: A cento, from the Latin for “patchwork,” is a collage poem composed of lines from other sources.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2023
If not, it should, for Robert Irwin’s ingenious historical fantasy “Wonders Will Never Cease” is a contemporary novelist’s version of the poetic form known as a cento.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
While reading a cento, one savored its imaginative repurposing of bits from Horace, Virgil and any number of lesser ancients.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
No matter that it is necessary even here to make a cento, that the untutored singer cannot keep up the song by natural force and has not skill enough to dissemble the lapses.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
If I were to write down all she and four other married women have confided to me, these three days past, it would make a cento, on one subject, in five parts.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
And so, I wanted to do what I could to discourage people from doing that and that's where the centos come in.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2019
The Empress Eudoxia wrote the life of Jesus Christ, in centos taken from Homer; Proba Falconia from Virgil.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
He was no mere lawyer: no stringer of professional centos.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
Parables and brief discourses, or rather, centos of religious and ethical exhortations and injunctions.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
His numerous poetical works are of the most miscellaneous kind, ranging from Christian hymns and elegies on deceased relations to translations from the Greek Anthology and centos from Virgil.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
