| 单词 | the gay science |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe gay science c. the gay science: the art of poetry; (also in extended use) poetical or literary criticism. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry poesyc1390 makinga1393 rhymingc1405 metringc1425 metrificationc1450 versifyingc1450 rhythming1582 poetrya1586 versinga1586 metredom1592 versification1603 the gay science1693 versemanship1762 rhymery1822 bard-craft1840 poeticism1847 poetism1848 poetics1851 poetics1851 1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. Fv This King, Richard Ceur de lion, and his Brother Jeffrey had formerly liv'd much..in and about Provence, so came to take delight in their Language, their Poetry (then call'd the Gay Science) and their Poets. 1715 S. Lewis tr. P.-D. Huet Hist. Romances 110 'Tis certain that the Arabians were extremely addicted..to the Gay Science, I mean, Poesy, Fable, and Fiction. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 70 455 So little of an heroic or tragic cast had their effusions, that they termed poetry the gay science. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. xiii. 313 Not forbidding himself those amorous indulgences which were the reward of chivalrous valour, and of the ‘gay science’. 1866 E. S. Dallas (title) The gay science. 1920 O. Elton Surv. Eng. Lit. III. x. 253 The ‘gay science’ is the science of criticism, the term being transferred from its original, Provencal sense of the craft of poetry. 1997 19th Cent. Lit. 52 336 The poet's..punning use of ‘gay’, which juxtaposes its suggestions of poetry as the gay science with its more usual meaning of joyful or perhaps even wanton. < as lemmas |
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