...Hugh Kenner Duke University Press 2004 COLUMNS RHYME An Unfinished Monograph Hugh Kenner Among the manuscripts and typescripts by Hugh Kenner in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center...

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... the them. disambiguate to yet has criticism effort, century’s a nearly after unambiguous; are poems these that Not ambivalence. Eliot’s quatrain poems, of Dogmatism and Disambivalence in strophesdaring and rhyme. . . . the giants (mostly female, some of them cousins) who bullied him...

... to muddling Itmerely seem may Latin. and English between ricocheting verbal and effects, cal rhetori balanced momentsof rhyme, through emotion and injunction, analysis...

... or dawn, Or when you go to reach for things —  a rhyme, let’s say, to end the poem, a nail to drive the coffin lid in place —  your fingers grasp and find it gone. As if, having once put down a book, no matter how you looked...

..., Virginia borrow to herby having, compounded was challenge The couplets. rhymed English into hexameters Latin renderto Lucretius’s demanding tenacity the and skills linguistic the possessed any if few her womenage, in learned were other there Though Epicureanism...

... 510 won’t ever know. didn’t know, He doesn’t know, and a vocabulary out of nursery rhymes. The bleak Northern shore Trabizond would have been the place. Maybe After Setting Down the Biography under your enemy’s fingernails. of the dirt a view grandstand only to catch wear contact lenses Put...

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..., Virginia borrow to herby having, compounded was challenge The couplets. rhymed English into hexameters Latin renderto Lucretius’s demanding tenacity the and skills linguistic the possessed any if few her womenage, in learned were other there Though Epicureanism...

... dreamed. Just as a rhyme in prose summons other words, composing a story that may begin at the end, the name Crepereia Tryphaena (which I fi rst heard spoken by a foreign friend, during a conversation in which we moved several times from one language to the other) now conjures up an unfastened...

... Between all states of life The presence of horse at your gate is congruent To the absence of horse at your gate The only difference is the time Time is stretchable and tensible But the point where you’re at Is inescapable! Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do We did what we had to do We rhymed...

.... Who s there? An elephant. What do you want? Chocolate, and so on. In this version, the Russian word for elephant (slon) becomes instead an acronym for the Solovki Gulag camp, and the rhyming word chocolate (shokolada) is replaced by Torquemada (hence the near­ rhymes in the translation: want...

... with scraps of found language seems normal enough for contemporary theater (especially in the context of Moscow’s New Drama scene of the 2000s), yet here it is set in lines of verse, at times rhyming and singsong, and it often veers off into poetic diction...

..., professor of English at the University of California, San Diego, is currently writing a book about literary emotion. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Adequacy of COMMON KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE COMMON Landscape, The Chances of Rhyme, The New Poetries, and The Scissors...

..., whetting rhyme against rhyme, —don't trust calculations, lest they ensnare your mind —don't trust your fingers like the blind, nor your eyes, like owls without hands— I call for wisdom and passion fused at the waist like a centaur. Any assessment of her work as a whole is shaped...

..., even economic policy. Accustomed to shaping real- ity by commanding the power of words, they can be tempted to use the same resources to shift political reality — to nudge the world into a better shape and make social outcomes rhyme with decency and goodness. But when we look at the legislative...

... shaped and proper end. So I d in artful sonnets like to fettle With rhyme and measure eloquent and limber Whatever my emotion gave to do; For this, though, I can t comfortably settle, Loving to hew things from a single timber, And otherwise would sometimes have to glue. 1806 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E...

...; but for the members of Gita’s class, it was just one more grammatical knot 109 to be untangled. As a matter of fact, it was with the singular, dual, and plural forms in mind that Gita had passed out the children’s nursery rhyme “Pet Zamorcˇkov”: noth- ing more ominous, she thought, than a counting-down...

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