poetry
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poetry/ˈpəʊətri/
▶noun poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
■ a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poetry.
'poetry' also found in these Oxford entries:
Acmeist
- act
- amaryllis
- beat
- Byronic
- calliope
- concrete poetry
- dove
- Edda
- eisteddfod
- fabliau
- free verse
- Georgian
- glutton
- imagism
- kenning
- lesbian
- lyric
- lyrical
- measure
- -meter
- metre
- order
- ottava rima
- Parnassian
- performance poetry
- poesy
- poetaster
- poetic
- poetic justice
- poetics
- prosody
- rhyme
- sapphic
- sing
- slam
- song
- unpoetic
- verse
