figure poem

“Drawing on the traditional figure poem as well as on the works of Pound, Joyce, and Cum - mings, many international experimenters developed,”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

“In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries both the emblem book and the figure poem stand as vivid exam - ples of ut pictura poesis, as well as of theories that presented the various arts either as mutually reinforc - ing agents or as a combination forming a hybrid art such as the masque, ballet, or opera.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas