found: Drury, J. The poetry dictionary, 2006(Cento: A poem made up of passages from poems by one or more authors; a patchwork of quotations; a literary collage; a pastiche (in the sense of being a mixture of poetic excerpts))
found: The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, 1993(Cento: A verse composition made up of lines selected from the work or works of some great poet(s) of the past. Homer largely served the purpose in Gr. lit., ranging from the adaptations by Trygaeus of various lines in the Iliad and Odyssey reported by Aristophanes (Peace 1090-94) to the Homerokentrones of the Byzantine period. Similarly, Virgil was the most popular source for centos in the later Roman times)
found: Delamar, W.T. Werd trix : about patchwork poems & shaped poetics, via WWW, July 15, 2013(A patchwork poem is just what its name says it is--something patched together. It is also called a cento, from the Latin for patchwork, and by some, a mosaic poem. It is a verse composed entirely of lines or phrases from the work of other authors. A patchwork poem can be rhymed or unrhymed; it can be assembled with emphasis on lines, or the lines might be chosen because they contain a focused concordance of a specific word)
found: Kautzer, K. How to write a cento poem : patchwork poetry, c2008, via WWW, Oct. 26, 2014(cento poetry)
