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
She wrote a panegyric on the Persian victories of Theodosius; and there is extant from her pen a cento of Homeric verse treating the life and miracles of Christ.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
