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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its tran
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James Fenton:
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean pJames Fenton:
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modJames Fenton:
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published formJames Fenton:
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itselfJames Fenton:
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhapsJames Fenton:
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr MossJames Fenton:
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importJames Fenton:
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdainJames Fenton:
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a praiJames Fenton:
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a lin