부산대학교 도서관

"Poetic license" is an expression with very broad meaning. It refers, in part, to the more or less free treatment of facts which is permissible in poetry under certain conditions. Clear examples of such license have been cited by Il'ia Sel'vinskii in his well-known book, A Study of Verse [Studiia stikha]. Thus, for example, he observed that in The Novice [Mtsyri], Lermontov brought about a "migration of the snow leopard from Turkestan to Georgia, where the snow leopard had never existed." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]