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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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This is a thread for all resources poetical. Here are some to get us started:
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Dafyd
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Long ago lays in alliterative metre
Were sung soothly and sounded well.
Then imitating Romance language verse
Chaucer began to write in couplets; worse
Poets tried to copy him. Elizabethan
Poets wrote in blank verse where the lines don't rhyme.
Victorian poets wrote odes of many kinds
Of metric patterns intricate.
Until Walt Whitman, American, self-aggrandising, boastful, invented a new poetry
For his new world, setting verse free from metre.
Old fashioned hymn - tunes with - dashes pleased
Emily - Dickinson -
Then in the twentieth century, almost anything
Goes, as long as it's a bit low key.
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agingjb
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Books on poetry:
I would add:
"An Introduction to English Poetry" by James Fenton
"Understanding Poetry" by James Reeves
"Poetry in the Making" by Ted Hughes
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I'd also recommend:
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Strand & Boland.
Really useful and lots of really good poetry.
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