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Category Archives: In Verse
in verse # 29 : of the devil’s party
William Blake was Milton’s son. But it was no easy birth. In his fine article on Milton’s prosody, John Creaser describes how Milton was able to work so well within the conventions of blank verse. Creaser begins by summarizing the … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse
Tagged blank verse, epic poems, John Milton, lyric poems, Paradise lost, poetry, poets, Satan, The marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake
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in verse # 27 : wretched matter and lame Meter
John Milton didn’t know jack about free verse, and yet when he explicated his reason for shunning rime he sounded like he understood the reasoning of the free versifiers at the turn of the last century. In introducing Paradise lost … Continue reading
in verse # 24 : appointed to be read in churches
All poetry is appointed to be read in churches; not all verse is. There is a long history of verse in English, in German, in Russian — probably in every language — written to be read in toilets, in taverns, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Ginsberg, Authorized Version, Hebrew poetry, James 1 of England, John Donne, Joseph Smith, Kethubim, King James Bible, Nevi'im, Richard Elliott Friedman, Robert Alter, Tanakh, The art of biblical poetry, The law, The new Cambridge paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha : King James Version, The prophets, The writings, Torah, Walt Whitman, Who wrote the Bible?, William Blake, William Shakespeare
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in verse # 23 : mighty line versus ordered speech
It was Kit Marlowe who awakened in Will Shakespeare a hunger for a dramatic speech more nearly reflecting ordinary English speech. It was Will Shakespeare who made it possible for Kris Kristofferson to write and sing the following lyrics as … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Thoughts on Language
Tagged A Dead Man in Deptford, Anthony Burgess, blank verse, Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Kris Kristofferson, Nothing Like the Sun, poetry, Singer/Songwriter, Stephen Greenblatt, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Tamburlaine the Great, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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in verse # 22 : back to blank verse
It is one of the guiding principles of in verse that verse should always be read aloud. This includes Shakespeare and Isaiah, Dante and Jeremiah, Milton and John of Patmos. It includes Pope and Chaucer, Beowulf and Homer, Dryden and … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Personal Narratives
Tagged "The Highwayman", "The mirror for magistrates", "Tragedy of Gorboduc", Alfred Noyes, Bessie Soderborg Clark, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Marden J Clark, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville (Earl of Dorset), William Shakespeare
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in verse # 21 : unblank verse
The imp of the perverse — a constant companion — suggested as a title for this installment “blankety-blank verse,” but as its topic is the Elizabethan sonnet, the title above presented itself as an amiable contrast to my last installment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Petrarchan sonnet, Renaissance England : poetry and prose from the Reformation to the Restoration, Shakespearean sonnet, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Wyatt, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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Children’s Lit Corner
Three years ago this coming Friday, my best friend died suddenly after suffering a deep thromboembolism. That death, especially the unexpected nature of it, shook me to the core. Of course I had lost friends and loved ones before, but … Continue reading
