Lipogrammatic text

[geoffreycaveney]

That's interesting. In the Bennett's book I read about some guy who wrote a whole novel altogether without the letter "e", but I never knew that the idea dates back to centuries BC. Are there any historic examples where functional words would be omitted?

The late 12th and early 13th century French poet Petrus Riga wrote a verse commentary on the Bible (in Latin of course) titled Aurora, which has been called the verse Bible of the Middle Ages. Each canto of it is followed by a summary in lipogrammatic verse, the first without A, the second without B, the third without C, and so on through the Latin alphabet. You can read the lipogrammatic verses You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: the lipograms can be found on pp. 8-13 of this pdf file, which are pp. 32-42 of the work, Fragmenta ex Aurora.