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The 11 candidates have each laid out their reasons for standing – one of them entirely in verse.
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This surely fails to recognize that for Bloom "reading" is more than an "encounter" with words (although it begins there), just as "poetry" is more than a composition in verse.
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I really can't wait for the sequel, this little missing scene really reminded me of how much I love the Zeppelin verse.
Study Break--A Sky Without Zeppelins Missing Scene--Happy Birthday Amyo67 amberfocus 2009
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Now that would add a nice twist to the mainstream cage match, if all the write-ups had to be in verse.
Cage Match Postscript grrm 2010
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Nick Davis watches Martha Fiennes's Onegin, "a gorgeous and beautifully judged rendering of Pushkin's classic novel in verse."
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Atlantic readers were also kept apprised of Kipling's handiwork in verse.
Who Was Kipling? 2007
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I agree wholeheartedly and I think for all of the ills – both alleged and actual – of the modern state of Western poetry, our poets are still quite good at anticipating the questions of the day and addressing them in verse.
Poetry and Prophecy : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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She captivated all who saw her, with the excellence of her beauty and the sweetness of her smile,293 and shot them down with the shafts she launched from her eyes; and withal she was eloquent of speech and excellently skilled in verse.
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Once I wrote The Stranger, I knew the entire book would be in verse.
slayground: Interview: Susan Taylor Brown Little Willow 2006
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This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse.
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008
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