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

The "General Intercession," for example, on page 50 of The Book Annexed, is a cento to which Taylor is the chief contributor.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

In its details, however, the extravagancies of the middle ages, and the often elegant frivolities of the cinque cento period, have been avoided, and the breadth and simplicity of Greek models have still been followed.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

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

Some are made up of stanzas from several different predecessors, others are almost centos of stock phrases.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

Familiar phraseology was ready at hand for the composition of new canticles which were often mere centos from the Psalms or other portions of the Hebrew scriptures.

From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Messenger, Ruth Ellis

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

Allan Cunningham corrected but little, yet his imitations of the elder lyrics are perfect centos of Scottish feeling and poesy.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous