Verses

Other Verses of the Great War_, and _Italy in Arms, and Other Verses_.

A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

Thus in a Poem, whose Verses consist of ten Syllables, those of the same Poem that are accented upon the last save one, which we call Verses of double Rhyme, must have Eleven; as may be seen by these Verses.

The Art of English Poetry 1702

"Verses," is organized to make available both the graphic images of the pages of the 1829 volume and editorial commentary, including an introductory set of essays on The Keepsake and commentaries on pages and works in that volume.

Front Page 2000

"Verses," is a (conscious or unconscious) echo of Petrarch's sonnet 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi, which also begins in that way; Charlotte Smith's learned annotations to her own Elegiac Sonnets and Mary Robinson's use of Petrarchan form and imagery in her sequence Sappho and Phaon had already shown how central to romantic-period poetry is this feminine revision of the Petrarchan diction, imagery, voice, and form.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

But in "Verses" such lapses are much more rare than the excellences, and at its best the metrical artistry represents

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

L. E.L.'s "Verses" is not a poem about the poor, or about the political consequences of the conservative stereotype of femininity; but it is a poem that states the unreality of nostalgic illusions and the power of popular lies about life.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

But "Verses" is not about feudalism or battle or riches -- it is about the fact that their pleasing illusions are false, "nought" (line 19) but "vague imagination" (line 21).

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

"Verses" is thematically consistent with the rest of the volume in this way, and it is also highly critical of the illusory status of its own subject-matter.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

The central duplicity of "Verses" is thus the provision of an illusion under the sign of its renunciation.

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie: Book summary 2010