Vestiges of Greek-Latin poetic experimentalism

Abstract

This work investigates certain traces of Greek-Latin poetic experimentalism, seeking to demonstrate its longevity and artistic power. In this sense, typologies of constrained writing are approached, such as the acrostic, the palindrome, the centon, the lipogram, the anagram and the tautogram. It is interesting to notice that such compositional modalities already find documentary records in works of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, although it is customary to attribute the spread of such expressive elaborations to the Concretist movement, located in the 20th century. Therefore, the process of marginalization of these artistic manifestations, which were relatively invisible, is made explicit. In this way, the resistant permanence of the experimental poetics construct is discussed based on a survey of the occurrences found, focusing on the ancient and medieval scenarios of its production. It is noteworthy, then, that this study is of an indiciary nature, aiming to enter into the perception of traces, clues and vestiges that allow a critical-panoramic look of this poetic legacy, which not only constitutes us, but also provokes, even in the times current, significant fascination and curiosity.