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- For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The…
- Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of…
- Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good…
- One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
- When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and…
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