Word: quatrains
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...much for his 19 competent whodunits (under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake) as for his poetry, became Britain's 18th poet laureate. And who knows? The pen of a still vigorous, thoughtful contemporary could turn a new page in Britain's national poetry-or scratch its final, deadening quatrain. The rangy, resonant-voiced Day-Lewis (who has only lately begun hyphenating his two surnames), seemed determined to broaden the scope of his office...
...what the modern sensibility is, Connolly finds its essence in a quatrain of Baudelaire, as translated by Robert Lowell...
...their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
Even so, it was on campus that the giddy prom trotter's brainy side began to show. For as far back as she could remember, the muse had been coaxing her thoughts toward verse, most of it not much better than her first quatrain, composed...
...that supplied them with heartfelt admiration for purity and chivalry. Established themes from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Arthurian legends furnished ready references. In oils, the brotherhood tried to evoke the natural piety that a verse of St. Mark's, a pentameter of Dante's, or a quatrain of Keats's inspired. In short, they were sick of portrait puffery...