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

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

With rare exceptions, Alida cannot be called a cento.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

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 John Brownlie

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

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

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 Ruth Ellis Messenger

The old themes and verses aimed at producing decorous centos culled from the works of classical rhetoricians and poets.

From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various

It is humiliating to contrast the reception of these empty echoes of inspiration, these agreeable centos, with that of such genuine, although faulty poems, as Keat's "Endymion," Shelley's "Queen Mab," and Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads."

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan