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
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
E.g. cento = hundred; centro = centre; cerbo = brain; certa = certain; cirkonstanco = circumstance; civila = civil, etc.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
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
His numerous poetical works are of the most miscellaneous kind, ranging from Christian hymns and elegies on deceased relations to translations from the Greek Anthology and centos from Virgil.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
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
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."
Mr. Mackintosh's Lectures were after all but a kind of philosophical centos.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
