Middle English Dictionary Entry
poetrī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | poetrī(e n. Also poetrẹ̄ & poietrie, (errors) portrye, potrie. |
| Etymology | OF pöeterie, pöetrie & ML poētria. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Poetry; also, a poem; ?also, ancient literature [quot.: (c1458)]; coll. poetical works; the feining of ~, poetic fables or tales; (b) neue ~, ?Geoffrey de Vinsauf's Poetria Nova, a treatise on poetics.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.279 : Of þe bryngynge forþ of mawmetrie com wel nyh al þe feyninge of poetrie [Higd.(2): figmentes; L figmenta].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.33 : Fraunceys Petrak..Highte this clerk whos rethoryk swete Enlumyned al Ytaille of poetrie [vrr. Poyetrie, Potrie].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.206 : They..maden skiles after hir fantasies, Rehersynge of thise olde poetries.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4241 : Chaucer..þoruȝ his poetrie Gan oure tonge firste to magnifie And adourne it with his elloquence.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1855 : Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Hrl 1766)9.3404 : I nevir was aqueynted with Virgyle..Nor with Ovyde, in poetrye moost entieer.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)406 : Poetrye [Win: Poetry]: Poetria.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1478 : Oon seyde that Omer made lyes, Feynynge in hys poetries.
- (c1458) Paston2.175 : William hath goon to scole to a Lumbard called Karoll Giles to lern and to be red in poetre or els in Frensh..he wold be as glad and as feyn of a good boke of Frensh or of poetre as my Maister Fastolf wold be to purchace a faire manoir.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)127/22 : Ouyde seithe..in his poetrye [F par fiction de poesie] that the god whiche is called Mars helped a knyght for his hardynesse.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)112/386 : Virgill in his poetre sayde in his verse Even thus by gramere.
b
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)88 : Galfryd of ynglond in his newe werk Entytlyd thus..Galfridus anglicus, in hys newe poetrye, Enbelshyd wyth colours of rethoryk.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Mum.Bishopswood (Ashm 59)101 : On Parnoso þe lusty muses nyene..Þis sayson singe and þeire notes tuwyne Of poetrye besyde þe cristal wellis.
Note: Perhaps 'song' as opposed to 'poetry' in this example.