Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite PoemRobert Pack, Jay Parini In this collection, "fifty-nine of America's best poets select their favorite verse by another writer and explore its influence on their own writing."--From back cover. |
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... rhyme ? The ground / ground rhyme had always been a favorite of mine , unusual , I thought , in poetry , though not unheard of , and pretty unusual in Dickinson . The Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson ( S. P. Rosenbaum ...
... rhyme ? The ground / ground rhyme had always been a favorite of mine , unusual , I thought , in poetry , though not unheard of , and pretty unusual in Dickinson . The Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson ( S. P. Rosenbaum ...
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... rhymes . When lines end on an accented rhyme as in " moon / June , " the result is called a mas- culine rhyme . When , as is frequent in Housman , the lines end with unaccented syllables as in " shatters " and " tatters , " the rhyme is ...
... rhymes . When lines end on an accented rhyme as in " moon / June , " the result is called a mas- culine rhyme . When , as is frequent in Housman , the lines end with unaccented syllables as in " shatters " and " tatters , " the rhyme is ...
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... rhyme in the writing of his solemn Paradise epic because he thought rhyming too trivial for the events described . Whitman substituted long , flowing cadences for rhymes , and did so to majestic effect . So did Wilfred Owen , one more ...
... rhyme in the writing of his solemn Paradise epic because he thought rhyming too trivial for the events described . Whitman substituted long , flowing cadences for rhymes , and did so to majestic effect . So did Wilfred Owen , one more ...
Contents
John Balaban on Wulf and Eadwacer | 11 |
Rosellen Brown on Silence by Marianne Moore | 26 |
Cook on Painting by Langston Hughes | 40 |
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