cento

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

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

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

This work, written probably in the 12th century, or at all events not earlier, is a cento, i.e. is in great measure composed of verses culled from ancient writers, e.g.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

In his principal work, The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, the hymn is found from which the following is a cento.

From Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes by Brownlie, John

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

And prudence can justly be desired in those who have collected these centos of the "Sentences" and decrees.

From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon, Philipp

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 Disraeli, Isaac

The temptation to father their own verses, or centos which they pieced together from sources known only to themselves, upon some poet of antiquity was all the stronger because they ran little risk of detection.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Fine writing is with him all verbiage and monotony—a translation into classical centos or hexameter lines.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob