A Discussion of Punctuation. “Edward, Edward” “Lord Randall” Skelton’s “Manerly Margery” Spenser’s “To His Booke” Astrophel & Stella 1 Campion’s “Silly Boy” Paradise Lost, Book 9, ll. 886-895
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Sep 24
Mr. Soul & Mr. Spenser
Neil Young recorded “Mr. Soul” with Buffalo Springfield in 1967. Here are two versions: Mr. Soul (live 2002) Mr. Soul — from Trans (1982) * * * Visions of Bellay (published in 1591); these are updated versions of Spenser’s 1569 Sonets. Sonets from 1569 Visions of Petrarch (published in 1591); these are updated versions of …
Sep 14
Fussell on meter
“Because it inhabits the physical form of the very words themselves, meter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order — rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all-structure — are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter …