Catherine Eisner
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Sunday, 19 March 2017
‘Did someone call for a recitation?’ Finishing School for Versifiers (Part 5)
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All poets, whatever they may seem to others, die young. Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer . You might say of certain literar...
Friday, 30 December 2016
Finishing School for Versifiers (part 3) In the bleak midwinter.
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Listening once more – as is traditional with us – to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast on Christmas Eve from King’s Colleg...
Saturday, 6 December 2014
No Poetic Makeweights, Thank You, Pastry Cooks Excepted . . . . . . . or Finishing School for Versifiers (part 2).
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When is a metrical makeweight ever acceptable to a poet? Padding? Never! Tennyson’s Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white , for ex...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Catechisms and Cliché : Fatuous Minds Think Alike or Finishing School for Versifiers (part 1)
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I’m ashamed to admit I’ve taken agin a number of writers simply because, unknown to me, like Amundsen at the South Pole, they’ve trumped me ...
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