Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unexpectedly the most workmanlike part of the magazine, the poonis are rich in restrained, suggestive imagery. Richard Wilbur's "Objects" is a related act of impressions, studded with vivid, sensuous imagery. In "Objects" and in his other two poems, Wilbur handles both rhyme and rhythm with subtlety and originality. "A Sermon," by John Ashbery, comments inclusively on a Bibical passage in terms of the frustration and spiritual blindness of modern society...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...
...Rhyme & Reason. In Los Angeles, a divorce-court judge listened unimpressed to James Gordon's too-well-versed plea...
...four-line rhyme that has had a continuing vogue in England, named for its inventor, mystery writer E. C. (for Clerihew) Bentley (Trent's Last Case). Sample Clerihew by Miller...
...Widener may be exceptions, but it is a safe guess that most Freshmen and Sophomores in the College today either don't know about it, or have a hazy idea that it is a place where long-haired graduate seminars get together to discuss technical niceties of meter and rhyme...