Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Novelist (The Once and Future King) T. H. White, 57. And that, he added, is just what has happened to T. S. Eliot, 75. Once the great guru of contemporary poets, Eliot has joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said T.H. of T.S., "he is out-due for the chop. Eliot is no longer cool. He's square...
...Nursery Rhyme...
...trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...
...Shakespeare looms in "With this I thee wed, as long as men shall sing." Finally, his poem manages to rhyme without seeming pusby. One stanza...
...clowns in three rounds," intoned Heavyweight Cassius Clay. True to his word, it was in the third that Clay's foe hit the hay. But the boastful young bard, although he slugs hard, must face Sonny Listen some time. And while he can't rhyme. Sonny's right is sublime-and each doggerel...