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Tag Archives: poetry
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
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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 # 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 # 20 : blank verse
Blank verse — the unrhymed iambic pentameter so brilliantly deployed by Shakespeare in his later plays — is an invention of the English renaissance, and specifically of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47), who used it to revise and strengthen … Continue reading
in verse # 19 : a hideous and intolerable allegory
One of the books I took with me to Seoul, Randy Lopez goes home,[i] proves that allegory and fable are alive and well in twenty-first century American literature. Two newspaper clippings I’ve been carrying around since May 8th prove that … Continue reading
in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable
Like many a medieval manuscript, Piers the plowman has no title as such. Walter W. Skeat, who gave it that title, notes, however, that, in the manuscript he used as the basis for his Oxford edition, “we find here [in … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, Mormon LitCrit, The Past through Literature
Tagged a monstrous fable, Albert C. Baugh, allegory, Book of Mormon, fantasy, Herman Melville, Joseph Smith, Joseph's Myth, Kemp Malone, mimesis, mimetic & fantastic, Moby-Dick, Mormon Literature, outsider art, Piers the Plowman, poetry, Scott Hales, the alliterative revival, verse and prose, Walter W. Skeat
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in verse # 17 : a fair field full of folk
I could hardly call my younger self a political junkie, and I would never claim that I had a sophisticate’s understanding of poetry in elementary school. I tried, and tried again, as often as I could, to understand how poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, Piers Plowman, poetry, the alliterative revival
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in verse # 16 : rime royal
In “The horrors of the German language,” chapter 8 of his Words and rules, Steven Pinker reminds us that “no one is biologically disposed to speak a particular language. The experiments called immigration and conquest, in which children master languages … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert C. Baugh, alliteration, Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, Chaucer’s major poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, Green Armor on Green Ground, John McWhorter, Our magnificent bastard tongue, poetry, rhyme, rime, Steven Pinker, syllabic rhyming verse, the continental form, The Oxford companion to English Literature, verse, Words and rules : the ingredients of language
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in verse # 15 : the alliterative resuscitation
When alliterative verse came roaring back to life in the mid-fourteenth century, it was more as a Wolfman than as a creature of some demented Frankenstein. In the century and a half between Laȝamon’s recasting of Wace’s Roman de Brut,[i] … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, contemporary American verse, E. V. Gordon, J. R. R. Tolkien, James Simpson, Middle English poetry, poetry, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tess Gallagher, The alliterative Morte Arthure, verse, verse; Simon Armitage; The Alliterative Morte Arthure; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; J. R. R. Tolkien; E. V. Gordon; Alliterative revival; alliterative verse; contemporary American verse; Middle En
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in verse # 14 : the alliterative revival
Literary wayfaring in England did not end with the Norman Conquest in 1066. It forked, one fork following the lead of the French conquerors, the other the lead of the English conquered. Both of these were excursions into vulgar territory
Posted in In Verse, The Past through Literature, Thoughts on Language
Tagged A Literary History of England, Albert C. Baugh, Arthurian romances, Kemp Malone, Medieval English verse and prose -- in modernized versions, poetry, Roger Sherman Loomis, Rudolph Willard, the alliterative revival, verse
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