Word: metricalled
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What may happen when Warren must relinquish the honor is already a vexing question. The prospect of regular spats over who will be the next laureate does not seem terribly poetic. Fairly soon the U.S. will have accumulated more laureates than the 18 that England has amassed in almost 300...
In the skeptical view of many Americans, plans to convert the U.S. to the metric system of measurement is an idea whose time may never come. Nonetheless, in the ten years since Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the country has undergone a quiet metrical transformation. Although the...
To the metrical skills of Philip Larkin,
DIED. Richmond Lattimore, 77, distinguished American poet and classical scholar whose literal yet lyrical translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were widely praised for their scrupulous adherence to the original Greek metrical pattern and syntax; of cancer; in Rosemont, Pa. A professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College...
Eliot cast most of his Cats verses in the ricky-ticky septameter that served lyricists from Gilbert to Kipling to Lear. The challenge to Lloyd Webber was to compose a score that did not sound like outtakes from The Pirates of Penzance. Because of this metrical restriction, Lloyd Webber could...