| 单词 | poetic licence |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoetic (poetical, etc.) licence 4. Deviation from recognized form or rule, indulged in by a writer or artist for the sake of effect; an instance of this. Frequent in phrase poetic (poetical, etc.) licence. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > form or order of a work > deviation from recognized form licence1530 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetic licence poetic (poetical, etc.) licence1819 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 44 Which auctors do rather by a lycence poetycall. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 49 By the licence of this figure we give names to many things which lack names, &c. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. f1 I generally join these two Licenses together. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Licences, in Painting, are the Liberties which the Painter takes in dispensing with the Rules of Perspective, and the other Laws of his Art. a1771 T. Gray Observ. Eng. Metre in Wks. (1884) I. 359 As to any license in the feet, it is only permitted in the beginning of a long verse. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxx. 63 This liberty is a poetic licence. 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 227 The poem..allows a metrical licence. 1877 L. Tollemache in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 846 By a prophetic license, perpetual means transitory. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 179 Coleridge's simile of ‘A painted ship upon a painted ocean’ is only a poet's licence. poetic licence poetic licence n. (see licence n. 4). < as lemmas |
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