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utopian poetry, poetry that describes a utopia or any sort of utopian ideal. Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)—the first printed work to use the term utopia, derived from the Greek words for “not” (ou) and “place” (topos)—is for many specialists the major starting point of utopian prose. The same claim can be made for utopian poetry, as the first strictly “utopian” poems appeared within More’s text. The first of these is “A Specimen of Utopian Poetry”; the second, “Lines on the Island of Utopia by the Poet Laureate, Mr. Windbag Nonsenso’s Sister’s Son,” is a brief satirical poem believed to ...(100 of 650 words)