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Recent Examples of blank verse
But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.
—Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
Murder and mayhem without the blank verse.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
The blank verse brings vim to the proceedings, but there’s nothing in Trump, real or imagined, that could match Charles’ hubristic, bone-crushing personal tragedy.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.
—Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
Murder and mayhem without the blank verse.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
The blank verse brings vim to the proceedings, but there’s nothing in Trump, real or imagined, that could match Charles’ hubristic, bone-crushing personal tragedy.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blank verse
Noun
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The award-winning work, told through a mix of free verse and haiku, offers a poignant and nuanced look at a young person growing up Black in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, finding herself through the art of writing.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2024
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Here are some of Robert Frost’s insights into how poetry works its magic: Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Hideko Takamine stars as Fumiko, a poor young woman who does manual labor and works as a bar hostess while writing poetry and prose that confront her struggle to survive alongside the feckless and brutal men in her life.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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Ancient Chinese poetry is often nonfiction, including first-person accounts of everyday life and observations of nature, the authors explained.—
Marlowe Starling,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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