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/poʊˈɛtɪk lˈaɪsəns/ Listen

adjective

Poetical, Poetic adj.

Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.

Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

Poetic license. See License, n., 4.

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Etymology of 'Poetic license'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Poetic license" Quotes from Famous Books

... the florid costume of verse is the divine right of the poet. Passion that must express itself longs always for the freedom of rhythmic utterance. And in spite of the exaggeration and extravagance which shield themselves under the claim of poetic license, I venture to affirm that "In vino veritas" is not truer than In carmine veritas. As a further illustration of what has just been said of the self-revelations to be looked for in verse, and in Emerson's verse more especially, let the ...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... moment. If Romedek were a painter we should know she'd been his model, and be awfully sorry for him. But Romedek is a musician (a great one—I wish you could hear him); and they say she hasn't even the social prestige or poetic license of having been an artist's model, but of having been something quite wrong to begin with. Naturally, you see, some of society won't have her at any price. Those that must have him have difficulty in entertaining them. I hear one prominent woman who ...

— The Smart Set - Correspondence & Conversations • Clyde Fitch

... freely drawn material from other Old Norse sagas and songs, and this, and not a little of his own personal experience, he has woven into the story with the consummate skill of a master. He made full use of his poetic license and eliminated and added, reconstructed and embellished just as was convenient for his plan. "My object", he says, "was to represent a poetical image of the old Northern hero age. It was not Fritiof as an individual whom I would paint; it was the epoch ...

— Fritiofs Saga • Esaias Tegner

... these marauders of the sea, who put in a plea of extenuation. The disparity of their virtues and their crimes is overwrought in the use of poetic license. Before the period of the conquest of Guadeloupe by the English, the French Government in force on that island had granted permits to numerous privateersmen to prey upon the commerce of the enemy, as our own Government had done in two wars. Now they could no longer enter the ...

— The Battle of New Orleans • Zachary F. Smith