Gnomic poetry

For the map projection see Gnomonic projection; for the game, see Nomic.

Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes, from the Greek word for "an opinion".

A gnome was defined by the Elizabethan critic Henry Peacham (1576?–1643?) as

It belongs to the broad family of wisdom literature, which expresses general truths about the world. Topics range over the divine and secular, to hierarchical social relationships.

单词	Gnomic poetry
释义	Gnomic poetry 英语百科 Gnomic poetry For the map projection see Gnomonic projection; for the game, see Nomic. Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes, from the Greek word for "an opinion". A gnome was defined by the Elizabethan critic Henry Peacham (1576?–1643?) as It belongs to the broad family of wisdom literature, which expresses general truths about the world. Topics range over the divine and secular, to hierarchical social relationships.
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