poetics

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  1. noun Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry.
  2. noun A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics.
  3. noun The practice of writing poetry; poetic composition.

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  • Because in poetics, as Margaret Atwood pointed out, "we write our history on the skin of fish with the blood of bears." —  William McDonough on cradle to cradle design
  • Poetry, poetics, with occasional forays into other arts and politics —  Out of the Woodwork
  • Cuchlann: I think I have my Aristotle in here right now … 4: 24 AM lelangir: poetics is right here collecting dust Pontifus: poor poetics Cuchlann: Yes, in the stack with the Shakespeare essays, the grammar book, and the Norton critical theory text. lelangir: so yeah … .. —  Anime Nano!
  • I'll never agree with your poetics, but my animus was personal - I resented your relationship with my teacher Donald Justice. —  Sharp Sand
  • "I'll tell you / About my poetics -" he writes in the 12th movement of "A": "An integral / Lower limit speech / Upper limit music." —  Tablet Magazine
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  1. Pl. of poetic: see-ics. Cf. French poëtique = Spanish Portuguese Italian poetica, feminine, poetics.
 

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