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
I must observe here, that the "Lament of Tasso" is, in fact, a cento taken from Tasso's minor poems.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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 William Reed Huntington
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
In 1712, he published his "Rural Sports," and dedicated it to Pope, who was then rising toward the ascendant, having just published his brilliant tissue of centos, the "Essay on Criticism."
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
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 Jacob Zeitlin
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
