Etymology

logopoeia

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Ancient Greek λόγος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromποίησις“poetry”
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromλόγος“speech, discourse, story, study, word, reason”
  3. English todaylogopoeia

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.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekλόγος all →

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Ancient Greekποίησις all →

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