This document provides a history of pattern poetry from ancient times to modernism. It describes early examples of pattern poetry from 1700 BC in Crete and 1785 BC in Egypt. It then discusses definitions and examples of pattern poetry from Hellenistic Greece between 325-200 BC shaped as altars, eggs, wings, and musical instruments. Further examples are given from Latin poetry between the 1st-10th centuries AD using magic squares and religious shapes. Medieval examples of cruciform poems are mentioned from the 9th century. Examples from the Renaissance, Baroque, and modernism eras are also provided, culminating with concrete poetry examples from the 1950s.

1. ФИГУРНАЯ ПОЭЗИЯ
Фаистос диск 1700 до
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Гераклионский музей, +
Крит+
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2. ФИГУРНОЕ СТИХОТВОРЕНИЕ
Manuscript of the Middle Kingdom +
1785 BC+
Death is before me to-day+

3. DEFINITION
Pattern poetry by Dick Higgins "visual poetry from before the twentieth century but in any Western literature".+
One hears it said that there are, perhaps, one hundred pattern poems. +
But everyone who knows any of them seems to know a different hundred from everyone else.+

4. HELENISTIC PATTERNS
Simmias of Rhodes 325 BC+
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Texts of magical function inscribed on sacred objects+

5. HELLENISTIC PATTERNS
Six Hellenistic Patterns +
BC 325 — AD 200+
shaped as two altars+
and egg+
a pair of wings+
axe+
syrinx+

6. HELLENISTIC PATTERNS
Theocretus's «Syrinx»+

7. LATIN
SATOR AREPO (79 AD)+
Magic Square+
"The farmer Arepo has [as] works wheels [a plough]";+

8. LATIN
Eugenius Vulgris (c.a.880 — c.a. 950) +
Solo tu nutu natis e cideris unus+

9. LATIN
Optatian, poem X (325 AD)+
twety-five pattern poems carmina quadrata.+

10. MEDIEVAL
Cruciform poems.+
World is the text written by the God and every letter in it has its sacred meaning.+
De laudibus sanctae crucis of Hrabanus Maurus (784-856)+

11. MEDIEVAL
Cruciform poems+

12. RENAISSANCE
Robert Herrik The Pillar of Fame (1647)+

13. RENAISSANCE
George Puttaham from The Arte of English Poesie (1589)+
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14. RENAISSANCE
George Herbert Easter Wings (1633)+
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15. BAROQUE
Johann Kankel (1680) +
Labyrinth and elaboration+

16. BAROQUE
Simeon Polotsky «From the Excess of Heart» (1661)

17. BAROQUE
«Love Knot»+

18. MODERNISM
Guillume Apolinaire Calligrammes,Typeset version, 1916+

19. MODERNISM
Guillume Apolinaire Calligrammes, Manuscript (1916)+

20. CONCRETISM
Eugen Gomringer, “ Wind” (1953)+

21. CONCRETISM
ПОРТРЕТ
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Sergei Seegei, Portrait (1964)+

23. Lecture by Natalia Fedorova
music by Taras Mashtalir