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The answer POETRY has 127 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of poetry in various dictionaries:
noun - literature in metrical form
noun - any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
The art or work of a poet.
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| Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden all won the prize for this type of literature |
| The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 |
| Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost remarked that this is what gets "lost in translation" |
| Wordsworth defined this form of literature as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" |
| Shelley & Eliot would be happy to know that April is the national month for this form of writing |
| Category in which Philip Levine & Wallace Stevens each won twice |
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| literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm poems collectively or as a genre of literature. |
| literature in metrical form |
| any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling |
| poems in general as a form of literature: |
| a very beautiful or emotional quality: |
| poems, esp. as a form of literature: |
| The art or work of a poet. |
| Poems regarded as forming a division of literature. |
| The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind. |
| A piece of literature written in meter verse. |
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Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of languagesuch as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metreto evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. * Poetry has a long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry in Africa, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry were developed extensively throughout the history of the empires of the Nile, Niger and Volta river valleys . Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa can be found among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BC, while the Epic of Sundiata is one of the most well-known examples of griot court poetry. The earliest Western Asian epic poetry, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, |