0 the act by a writer or poet of changing facts or rules to make a story or poem more interesting or effective:
1 changes by a writer to facts or rules of good writing to make the work more interesting or effective
Interestingly enough, the fact that she has exercised her poetic license (very successfully of course) is not mentioned at all.
Perhaps the conventional expressions in which it occurs, otherwise unusable in quantitative dactylic hexameters, may have been granted some special poetic license.
The title also refers to any author's need for poetic license and the personal liberty to create art.
Some take enormous poetic license with the truth.
The details of the poem often vary from the traditional tale by poetic license.
He had previously said that in order to respect her family, he had told the public that the incident was entirely his poetic license.
The context is poetic license rather than historical accuracy.
However, what he has termed narrative biography has been criticized as an apparent euphemism for poetic license.
