Dungeness, battle of
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Dungeness, battle of, 1652. A sharp naval action during the first
Anglo‐Dutch War. Tromp, on convoy duty in the channel, attacked
Blake off Dungeness on 30 November. Blake was obliged to break off the encounter and the Dutch convoys went through unscathed.
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La Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; La Versification. By JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD. (Collection Premier Cycle) Paris...French universities and its aim is to present the theory of French versification from a descriptive viewpoint (p. 2). Its opening chapter presents...
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English, Alan. Verlaine poete de l'indecidable. Etude de la versification verlainienne.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Man. Verlaine poete de l'indecidable. Etude de la versification verlainienne. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi (Coll...undecidable metres. Verlaine never completely rejects classical versification, but subverts it: "... on verra que le vers est assiege...
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The versification of Joseph Brodsky, 1990-1992.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...employ the linguistic-statistical method and theoretical basis that have long been standard in academic research on Russian versification, modified where appropriate to take account of the particular features of the material. (5) In the most complete edition...
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An invitation to versification
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/22/2003; ; 647 words
; JANE GLENN HAAS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-22-2003 An invitation to versification -- Keeping it short must be a forte JANE GLENN HAAS Date: 06-22-2003, Sunday Section: LIVING Edtion: All Editions...
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A History of European Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; A History of European Versification. By M. L. GASPAROV, trans. by G. S. Smith and M. TARLINSKAYA. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xvi + 334 pp. 40 [pounds...
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The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. By AMIDU SANNI, Beiruter Texte and Studien, vol. 70. Beirut: FRANZ STEINER...
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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Timothy Steele All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. Ohio University Press, 366 pages, $34.95 cloth $16.95 paper One odd side effect of the growing interest in formal poetry...
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Di-versification.
Newspaper article from: Financial News; 4/8/2002; 448 words
; Morgan Stanley's eminent strategist, Barton Biggs, has been known to wax poetical and philosophical in his weekly reports. But he outdid himself in last week's European Investment Perspectives, in which he discussed the disenchantment of wealthy investors with the markets. He didn't content himself
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True feast of versification
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; MICHAEL Morpurgo, the Children's Laureate, made a simple but important point at the StAnza Festival on Saturday when he said that poetry is the most intense form of writing. If literature were food, poetry would be foie gras, truffle oil, rich dark chocolate - rare and delicious, but eat it all day
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Hearing the measures. (poetic meter and versification)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; The poets and the audiences of 1590 and 1600 were in love with the unrhymed pentameters. To us familiar; to them a Newfoundland. They ran riot with the discovery, as an age does when a new creative medium falls to its portion. They heard the beat with rapture. Even when the poets and players
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versification
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
versification principles of metrical practice in poetry. In different...on English Metre (2d ed. 1968); W. K. Wimsatt, Versification (1972); J. McAuley, Versification: A Short Introduction (1983); P. Kiparsky and G...
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Verse
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...adj. orthometry 1. the laws of versification. 2. the art or practice of applying...science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification, as that of Dylan Thomas...
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Rubén Darío
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...aunt, he showed at an early age an astonishing ability for versification. His early Jesuit training appears to have had little influence...to French literature and instructed him in new styles of versification. In 1884 Darío returned to Managua, took a job...
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rhyme
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme...rhyming dictionaries in English (which include discussions of versification) by J. Walker (1775; revised and reprinted frequently...
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bardic schools
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...such as the brehon law tracts , Middle Irish tracts on versification edited by Thurneysen, and the Auraicept na nÉ...obligations and the payment of a fee. The art of filidheacht , or versification, was taught to students in each of the various disciplines...
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