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Blank verse
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chapter
chapter2 the main division of a book.chapter and verse an exact reference or authority; originally, the exact reference to a passage of Scripture (the usage is recorded from the early 17th century). Chapter and verse divisions to the scriptures are of comparatively late date; Jewish scholars of the... Read more |
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James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915, English poet and playwright. From 1910-13 he served in the diplomatic corps. A preoccupation with the exotic is revealed in his verse, particularly in The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913). His two plays, Hassan (pub. 1922) and Don Juan (pub. 1925), were... Read more |
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free verse
free verse term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions in regard to metrical structure. Cadence, especially that of common speech, is often substituted for regular metrical pattern. Free verse is a literal translation of... Read more |
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash 1902-71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was popular for a wide assortment of witty and immensely quotable doggerel verses, ranging from urbane satire to absurdity in their subject and rhyme. For several decades his work appeared regularly in The New Yorker ... Read more |
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Timon of Phlius
TIMON OF PHLIUS(320–230 BCE) Most of Timon's importance rests upon his reputation as a reporter, but he was also responsible for one or two original twists to the philosophy of his master—Pyrrho. He was a literary virtuoso, composing in a variety of verse forms. Seventy-one fragments... Read more |
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Bevis of Hampton
Bevis of Hampton, a popular verse romance from the late 13th or early 14th cent. in 4,620 lines, based on a 12th-cent. Anglo-Norman chanson de geste entitled Beuves de Hanstone.... Read more |
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Phaedrus
Phaedrus , fl. 1st cent. AD, Latin writer, a Thracian slave, possibly a freedman of Augustus. He wrote fables in verse based largely on those of Aesop . The prose collections of fables that were popular throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages were probably derived from Phaedrus.... Read more |
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948, American poet, b. Waitsburg, Wash. Her early years were spent in Hawaii. She returned to the United States in 1914, graduated from the Univ. of California in 1919, and taught English at several women's colleges. Her poetry ranges from the deeply personal poems of her... Read more |
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Della-Cruscans
Della-Cruscans [from the Accademia della Crusca, founded for linguistic purity, Florence, 16th cent.], a group of English poets living in Italy at the end of the 18th cent. who published pretentious, sentimental verse in The Arno (1784) and The Florence Miscellany (1785). Robert Merry, writing... Read more |
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POETRY
...POETRY Literary composition in verse form. It is often the case...quality, while to discuss it as verse relates to technique used...are blurred: the phrase bad poetry may refer to technique and the phrase superb verse may imply poetic excellence... |
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Anderson, Maxwell
...and he turned to blank‐verse drama with Elizabeth the Queen...Over Taos (1932), also in verse, dramatizes the end of the...1933), the author returned to verse and to English and Scottish...musical production, and The Bad Seed (1955) was a dramatization... |
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Anderson, (James) Maxwell
...praise. He turned to blank‐verse drama for his recounting of the...subsequent dramas in similar blank verse, making him the only major 20th...High Tor (1937). His 1937 verse play about the Mayerling incident...about a vicious child, The Bad Seed (1954). ... |
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Nash, Ogden
...71), New York author of light verse, which ranges from acidulous satire and...humorously employed the mannerisms of her bad verse: hyper dithyrambic meters, pseudo...The Primrose Path (1935), The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (1936... |
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Belloc, Hilaire
...for Salford from 1906–9 and in 1910. His books of verse include A Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896), Verses and Sonnets (1896), Cautionary Tales (1907), and Sonnets and Verse (1923). His most celebrated serious lyrics are probably... |
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DIALOGUE
...of dialogue, especially in blank verse, followed the classical tradition...not Masters?I feare there will a worse come in his place.Prose dialogue...considered to be more realistic than verse and verse has never again been the principal... |
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Lalla Rookh
...series of Oriental tales in verse connected by a story in prose...her train are diverted by four verse tales told by Feramorz, a young...chamberlain Fadladeen into a bad temper, which he vents in pungent...criticisms of the young man's verse, in the style of ... |
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Moore, Julia A.
...wide attention because her writing was so bad that it seemed to possess almost a touch...and choking on roast beef to occasional verse on the Grand Rapids Cricket Club. Her...childish grammar, and rhymes that went from verse to worse, delighted Clemens, who ... |
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
...autobiographical novel, The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). He had planned to enter...which period he published The Story of a Bad Boy, such gracefully turned short stories...refined, delicately finished, but shallow verses, printed mainly in the Atlantic Monthly... |
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folios and quartos, Shakespearian
...Playes’, together with commendatory verses by contemporaries including Jonson.During...that over half of those quartos are ‘bad’ ones. Their texts are extremely corrupt...quartos (and in some cases the ‘bad’ ones as well) and their versions in... |
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verse
verse •amerce, asperse, averse, burse, coerce, converse, curse, diverse...perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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worse
worse •amerce, asperse, averse, burse, coerce, converse, curse, diverse...perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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burse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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curse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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immerse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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nurse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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perverse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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submerse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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transverse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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wet nurse
...hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse •commerce • wet nurse • sesterce •adverse • universe • obverse |
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The very best of bad verse
...WORK OF AMERICA'S LAUREATE OF LIGHT VERSE by Douglas M. Parker Ivan R. Dee...the rhyme words, much of his 'good bad verse', as he characterised it...nothing so much as William McGonagall's bad bad verse; but Nash was artful ... |
 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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The poet who took bad verse to new depths; Time traveller Take a trip down...
...the man who was not only their worst poet but the world's worst poet?Whyisn't William TopazMcGonagall...He also published volumes of verse, the first, in 1890, earning...much the same CAPTION(S): BAD TO VERSE: The 'great' Scottish poet... |
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AN ODE TO SCOTLANDS CHEESIEST POET; Bad verse: James McIntyre, left, was...
...greatWorlds show at Paris. But it was the last verse that would seal McIntyres reputation as...such as Scotland to produce one bizarrely bad poet inMcGonagall was a misfortune. To...soonback in businessand advertising in verse: His Furniture is cheap and good, in... |
 "The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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RUSHDIE MARRIAGE WENT FROM JUST BAD TO `VERSES'
...threat for having written "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie is blamed by Wiggins for a...suffering from censorship. "It is no worse than entertaining," Rushdie retorted...last book was called `Last Chapter and Worse,' so maybe my next one could be `I Lied... |
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McGonagall and a 'new' tortuous play on words; In print at last -...
...have seen him hailed as the worst poet ever to brutalise the English...plaudits - as the world's worst playwright. The former handloom...just as excruciating as his verse. Based on his poem of the same...think the tag of "world's worst playwright" would be a ... |
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From bad to verse.(Letters)
...and worship the golden image (verse five). The gentleman read...hesitation - and, indeed, verse seven which repeats the names...When, however, he got to verse ten, there seemed a little...day my position becomes Even worse,' thought the Chancellor... |
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From bad to verse; PETERBOROUGH.(Letters)
...and worship the golden image (verse five). The gentleman read...hesitation -- and, indeed, verse seven which repeats the names...When, however, he got to verse ten, there seemed a little...day my position becomes Even worse,' thought the Chancellor... |
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Musings on blogs go from bad to verse.(Arts and Lifestyle)
...8:45 p.m. Presented with a 13-verse song about someone named "Derek," I...her to "Kill! Kill!" 9:32 p.m. Bad poetry. 9:48 p.m. Darren in Sacramento...pick in my cranium. 11:07 p.m. More bad poetry. 11:27 p.m. Oh goodie - amateur...me, or is the poetry actually getting ... |
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'Yes' goes from bad to verse Rhyming script a shame, it turns good flick kind...
...film, it loudly soundly fails. Using verse such as that would be writer-director...way of describing her movie "Yes" as a bad idea. Written in iambic pentameter (10...rhyming -- that followed 9/ 11. She says verse allows her to express ideas in palatable... |
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'Yes' goes from bad to verse
...film, it loudly soundly fails. Using verse such as that would be writer-director...way of describing her movie "Yes" as a bad idea. Written in iambic pentameter (10...rhyming -- that followed 9/ 11. She says verse allows her to express ideas in palatable... |
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