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

You must see the frescoes in the Chapel, by Bazzi—pure quattro cento.

From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel

Sifting and pruning are needed before a cento can be formed which would commend itself to modern taste.

From Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes by Brownlie, John