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Tag Archives: verse
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 # 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
Posted in In Verse
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
Posted in In Verse
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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in verse # 11 : last of the awdl
To me, turkey has always meant dark meat — the leg and the thigh. This may be because of an association I made early on between dark meat and the dark lady of the sonnets. I had no idea who … Continue reading
in verse, #1 : in the beginning
I first thought of calling this bloggette “re verse,” after the blogmaster proposed “Poetry Corner,” because I intend to write about verse, not poetry. “Poetry” is a quality judgment applied to occurences of verse, and some writers deprecate their works … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse
Tagged Beowulf, Frederick Rebsamen, John McWhorter, poetry, reading aloud, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, verse
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