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Kind Quotes by James Fenton
- At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length…
- A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age…
- I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in…
- 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
- 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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