41 Words to use with poetry

Some people have still a dislike of what they call foolish poetry books.

(In Yale poetry review, summer 1946)

STEPHENS, CYNTHIA A poetry recital.

Your prose and poetry IQ for America.

The poetry cure, a pocket medicine chest of verse.

But when one stands in another home, where these are necessarily unseen by us, stands with the young husband, the poetry-maker, how different it all seems.

Now as in the nation, so in the individual, poetry springs up before prose.

BERGE, H. VON. SEE VON BERGE, H. BERMAN, MORRIS. Greenwich Village poetry anthology, compiled by Martin Bernfeld, pseud.

Contemporary poetry criticism.

Piano settings: Ruth Post, drawings: T. Herzl Rome, poetry adaptations: Isaac Schwartz, Jacob Sloan & Ruth Rubin, editor: Ruth Rubin.

A poetry primer.

(California poetry folios, pt.9) © 10Sep47; AA38894.

Steps in creative poetry; a book for poetry lovers.

(In American poetry magazine, suppl. 1940) © 20May40; B421831.

Riding home along the flat, winding, water-logged lane by the light of the stars I nearly started off on the poetry lines again, but I got home just in time.

The essentially pagan spirit of the Renaissance which caused him no doubts nor difficulties proved too strong for his readers and his followers, and the emancipated artistic enthusiasm in which it worked alienated from secular poetry men with deep and strong religious convictions.

They'll call me poetry monger and then dub Me rustic rhymer, anything they choose, Ay, anything at all, but heaven's immortal muse.

And it seems questionable whether we have enough formal "belief" nowadays to allow of such a story appearing as solid and as vividly credible as epic poetry needs.

He has called my poetry nonsense, and my friend a fellow.

The scope of his craft was more restricted, as his repetitions and stock epithets show; he was restricted by the fact that he composed for recitation, and the auricular appreciation of diction is limited, the nature of poetry obeying, in the main, the nature of those for whom it is composed.

The present generation of poetry-readers cares mainly for style.

The greater part of this poetry repeats, in another language, the well-worn mannerisms of the troubadours: we find the usual introductory references to the spring or winter seasons, the wounding glances of ladies' eyes, the tyranny of love, the reluctance to be released from his chains and so forth, decked out with complications of stanza form and rime-distribution.

He also advocated the multiplication of poetry tea-shops, where pure China tea and wholesome confectionery should be supplied gratis to all poets whose works had been favourably noticed in The Times Literary Supplement.

There is much novelty in the present Gem: the prints, prose, and poetry sparkle most characteristically, and are just such as the title of the work would lead one to expect to find in it; which is a rare merit among new books.

Both in oratory and in poetry sublimity is attained by image-making, as when "moved by enthusiasm and passion, you seem to see the things of which you speak, and place them under the eyes of your hearers."

41 Words to use with  poetry