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logopoeia

noun

  1. One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.

    uncountable

    Unless I am right in discovering logopoeia in Propertius (which means unless the academic teaching of Latin displays crass insensitivity as it probably does), we must almost say that Laforgue invented logopoeia, observing that there had been a very limited range of logopoeia in all satire, and that Heine occasionnally employs something like it together with a dash of bitters, such as can (though he may not have known it) be found in a few verses of Dorset and Rochester.

Where it comes from

Coined by Ezra Pound from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “speech, discourse, story, study, word, reason”) and Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, “poetry”) in a 1918 review of the Others poetry anthology.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry logopoeia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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