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Bobbi: In college I took a course in 20th Century Poetry and became familiar with poetry forms and then took a course titled "Versification".
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No great artist wishes to imagine that his or her strategies for achieving excellence can be reduced to the size of an iPhone Application, but anyone who knew him at all knows that no one would more enjoy the notion of a "Ginsberg Versification App" than Allen himself.
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As to the Versification of them, if there is Wit or Humour in it laugh -- if ill Nature, sneer -- if mere Dullness, why you may even yawn or not nod.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1775 1963
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I asked many questions about French books, and particularly enquired about their Prosody, as I wished to understand something of their Versification.
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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Versification, if it please; all that we protest against is D'ISRAELI being of the number.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various
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If the Glossary annexed to the following piece will make the language intelligible; the Sentiment, Description, and Versification, are highly deserving the attention of the literati.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Congreve -- Genius 15, Judgment 16, Learning 14, Versification 14;
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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Our first volume having been devoted to the Reason or Theory of Art in general, it is our intention in the second, Rhyme and Rhythm, to bring these comprehensive thoughts to a focus, and concentrate their light upon the art of Versification.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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Difference between Poetry and Versification, between a perfect Poem and
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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Versification was understood in that day as never since, and no treatise on English verse so good, in all respects, as that of Campion (1602) has ever been written.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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