...Wightman F. Melton Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Accidental Rimes and Jingles in Blank Verse. Wightman F. Melton Professor of English in Emory College In blank verse rime is not expected. As Symonds says, Our ears are satisfied without it, and yet the ear is probably more...

... run-on lines than Pope in his couplets fewer than any other writer of blank verse I know of; and in his later plays he carried the use of feminine end­ ings to practically the percentage adopted by 18th and 19th cen­ tury writers of plays in blank verse, but some thirty percent be­ yond that of most...

... the unregulated measure to the tradi­ tional counted feet and those associated, named patterns blank verse, Spenserian stanza which bear the further associations of genres. That poets have, and ought to have, the opportunity to choose greater free­ dom, to move away from the regularities and formal constraints...

... to the sources of the letters. Also the foot notes too often present information regarding prominent men of the time, more or less familiar to the reader, while less prominent characters, not so widely known, receive no mention. William K. Boyd. The Technique of English Non-Dramatic Blank Verse. By Edward Payson...

... each. Of these shares 146,250 were blanks, that is, a holder would be paid only the minimum, which was an annual sum of fourteen shillings for thirty-two years, a total return of £22/8 for the £10 invested. The remaining 3,750 tick­ ets, called benefit or fortunate tickets, annually brought...

... which Professor Blank has ignored, but specialists in this field will recognize at once that Blank has grossly oversimplified an extremely complex problem. Thus appealed to, the reader of the review feels almost a moral obligation to agree with the reviewer. Clearly this critic possesses the cardinal...

... modest and neatly tucked away in innocuous poetry sections of periodicals. The Children of the Night (1897), like many other volumes of its decade, contained ballads, villanelles, sonnets, and quatrains, as well as the less usual blank verse forms. Seeing these, the critics apparently supposed Robinson...

.... In the discussions after the signing of the Agreement for Social Peace and New Constitution, 1 writing was shown as a way to escape anxiety and control uncertainty. How would that New Constitution be drafted? Would it be drafted on a blank page? Would nothing remain from the previous constitution, drafted...

...John T. Flanagan A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature . Edited by Rubin Louis D. Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1969 . Pp. xxiv , 351 ; 352-68 numbered but blank. $10.00 cloth; $3.25 paper. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University...

... as possible. In Tennessee it is further provided that, if there is not time enough to print duplicates of the original ballots, blank ballots are to be prepared and distributed on which the voters are to write the titles of the offices and the names of the candidates. The New Hanover county law provides...

... in blank verse. It died on me. I just couldn t get something that I wanted. But then I took it later and broke it up into movements and started over again. As soon as I broke it up into movements, put it into a highly rhythmic free verse and threw the blank verse out, the poem just fell together...

... novelist William Gibson. When activated, it runs once; then a built-in computer virus destroys the text, leaving a blank disk (Figure 3). No matter, for now, what the evanescent content of that disk may be. Its specific content is less important than the fact of its disap­ pearance. In a jibe at the art...

...-burnt Ponderosa bark still present. I open my draw- Spang • On Fire  35 Figure 1. On Fire, Tree Study #4, 2014, Bently Spang, drawing and single-channel video 1 installation, drawing 10” x 14 /8” ing pad, flip to a blank...

..., Wordsworth turns to the Sublime, to the sense sublime (95) Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns (97) and in the mind of man (99). At the same time, Wordsworth was starting The Prelude, which he referred to as re­ cording the growth of a poet s mind, and in this work he again used the blank...

... philosophical poem than to Beowulf, yet they are pertinent to any consideration of verse translation. If these are valid points, they would justify a translation of Beowulf into, for example, blank verse. But this brings us to problems more complex than the question of prose or verse. If we grant the value...

...). It was a blank, empty refusal. Of course, Blanchot was contesting de Gaulle, rejecting the impossible choice of civil war or de Gaulle, but he refrained from making explicit political demands, proposing a way forward, or presenting a possible political solution. The refusal was “silent,” he wrote, “solitary...

...; but as a remarkably well sustained poetic narrative which car­ ries the reader through six hundred pages of consistently good blank verse, it is a crowning triumph. The writing of an epic (or a near-epic) is no easy task. If any reader would be convinced of the tremendousness of Mr. Malone s accomplishment, let him...

... Child Labor Provisions in the Codes 231 anyone under . . . years of age at operations or occupations hazardous in nature or detrimental to health. In the first blank above most codes have inserted sixteen ; and in the second, eighteen. The first industry to adopt the exact phrasing of this clause...

... of Drake were published in 1906 and the remaining nine two years later. The subject of this epic is the life-story of Sir Francis Drake in its connection with England s glory-crowned acquisition of the dominion of the seas. The poem has many merits: flawless blank verse, fine descriptive passages...