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At times he'd junk this anarch's mission, Disdain sprung rhythm, embrace tradition, And with resolve as firm as Priam's, He'd versify in four-foot iambs:
Why do politicians lie? These days such a question is like asking why poets versify or why birds sing. Yet, in the end, the answer is simple: democracy.
-- The MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing...
I'd expect to be robbed in Chicago But not in the home of the cod. So I hope that the Cabots and Lowells Will mention the matter to God. wrote Poet Ogden Nash, 62, moved to versify in the Boston Globe as part of a plea to crooks...
Four centuries later, moderns who celebrate the Bard's birthday often miss the vivid life that Shakespeare gave to the law in hundreds of legal puns, parodies and allusions. He never studied for the bar, but in that lavishly litigious era he could hardly escape learning about it. Elizabethans...