Word: rimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shapiro is especially noted for his "An Essay on Rime," a criticism in verse, which he wrote while on a Pacific Island during his four years in the armed services in World...
...towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived to be successful...
...Juan Fernández. In 1719, a mariner aboard the English privateer Speedwell shot a black albatross. Seven months later, the Speedwell was wrecked on Más-a-Tierra's rocky shore. On that episode Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the shooting of the albatross in The Rime oj the Ancient Mariner...
...Professor Donald A. Stauffer, after taking a deep dive, comes panting to the surface with a handful of old clamshells-e.g., "A work of art may have extremely small beginnings"; "the progress of an artist in creation is always toward . . . greater significance," etc. Poet Karl (An Essay on Rime) Shapiro finds that "tigers have a dual significance" for Stephen Spender, that "poetry is but one form of expression of mystic or demonic vision...
Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...