as in blank verse
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But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
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
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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
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Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2022
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In the poetry of Donne and his contemporaries, the speaker of the poem is almost always a man, with women as implicit audience and explicit objects of desire.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Unique voices, unique perspectives Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books.—
Bradley J. Irish,
The Conversation,
29 Apr. 2025
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