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
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
The innuendoes of the Ugellino and the Nicchio are here repeated in figures which anticipate the novels and capitoli of the cinque cento.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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."
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
This fourth series of Hymns from the Office Books of The Holy Eastern Church, differs from the preceding three in this, that the hymns are less translations or renderings, and more centos and suggestions.
From Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church by Brownlie, John
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 Gilfillan, George
