poetixetera
(po et' ihk SET ur uh)
n. The field of poetics plus all the incidentals connected with it,
such as the personalities and biographies of individual poets and
critics, individual poems and analyzes of them, the relation of a
given theory of poetics to a theory of esthetics, and so forth.
such as the personalities and biographies of individual poets and
critics, individual poems and analyzes of them, the relation of a
given theory of poetics to a theory of esthetics, and so forth.
Origin: [From "poetics" and "et cetera."][rec'd October 22, 1989]