poesy
noun
old useuk/ˈpəʊ.ɪ.zi/us/ˈpoʊ.ə.zi/[U]
poetry:
Hebelievedhe would have beenhailedmorepubliclyif he had written poesyinsteadofprose.
[C]
apoem:
In the poesies weseethehaplesshunterActaeonstumblingacrossthechastegoddessDiana.
- ThetrueLatinword forpoetryis "poiesis",hencethe word "poesy" thatpuristsfavouredin the 19th and early 20thcenturies.
- "Poesy" or "poetry" hadstartedbecomingrestrictedtosignifyingmetricalcompositionratherthanprosefrom themiddleof the seventeenthcentury.
- Themusicof Debussy isfullofpurest, mostdelicatepoesy.
Literature
- action hero
- alliterative
- alternative history
- anapest
- anti-literary
- femslash
- fictionality
- fictive
- free verse
- genre fiction
- ode
- passion play
- pentameter
- poem
- poet laureate
- theatrics
- topos
- tragedy
- tragicomic
- trilogy