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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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| If you have some lines by Edgar Guest in your house, it's likely they're lines of this |
| Ironically, Marianne Moore began a poem about this literary form, "I, Too, Dislike It" |
| Type of lit. that was the specialty of Francois Villon, Marie De France & Charles Baudelaire |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950 |
| Coleridge called it "the best words in their best order" & wrote some of it that's pretty good |
| Anne Bradstreet was the 1st woman in the colonies to be recognized for this type of writing |
| To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me" |
| Founded in 1912, the magazine named for this literary genre has published Wallace Stevens & T.S. Eliot |
| Literary hobby of Dr. Zhivago, whose writing got better, not "verse" |
| William Wordsworth told us this form of literature "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge" |
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| Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound. |
| The essence or characteristic quality of a poem. |
| A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements. |
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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, |