Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Toby Barlow's blank-verse modern-day epic of love and werewolves, Sharp Teeth, was one of the more original fictions (in terms of style and presentation) that I have read in years. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A capsule version of the Aeneid ( "with quotations from Dr. J.W. Duff's blank-verse version") rests next to an article titled "How a Lock Is Made." ❋ Unknown (2009)
First performed in London in 1955, Orson Welles's blank-verse adaptation of Herman Melville's novel is a product of his wilderness years, the period when the creator of "Citizen Kane" had become a pariah in Hollywood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1772, Mercy anonymously published anonymously The Adulateur, a blank-verse satire in which she criticizes the administration of Thomas Hutchinson, who was royal governor of Massachusetts in 1771-1774. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)
In some of its forms the development was unpleasing and discouraging to Ibsen; the success of the blank-verse tragedies of Andreas ❋ Unknown (2008)
It's a pity Mr. Frayn didn't pay more than cursory attention to Reinhardt's life in exile, but the playwright has made a fatal decision to use, as a vehicle for the exposition of "Afterlife," his own blank-verse translation of the Salzburg pageant play "Everyman," on which Reinhardt collaborated with Hofmannsthal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
By his own report, Bryant was still a teenager living in his native Cummington, Mass., when he wrote the bulk of "Thanatopsis," the blank-verse meditation on death that remains his most influential poem. ❋ Wes Davis (2008)
Their lack of money to fund the project decided Fanny to resurrect one of the several blank-verse dramas which she had worked on while at Court. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She spoke, and her speech was still song, or rather measured chant; but, as if now more familiar, it flowed occasionally in modulated blank-verse, and at other times in the lyrical measure which she had used at their former meeting. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The other students I knew of who had applied were conspicuous campus presences, top athletes and leaders of student government, whereas I was a nervous loner in an old raincoat whose most notable accomplishment was writing and staging a blank-verse play loosely based on Andy Warhol. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Most of the late poetry of Robert Browning is pretty hard to get through; after his last great work, the blank-verse epic "The Ring and the Book," his bad habits of obscurity and over-rhyming got the better of him. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)
As he encounters the literate blank-verse poem, Clare begins to write, while Byron (in Clare's account) hopes to maintain his privilege by widening the division between folk utterance and the vernacular standard. ❋ Unknown (1999)
I began to compose a sort of blank-verse "Sub-Saharan Blues," in which the first line of each verse ran: "You know you're in the Third World when …" Thus: ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (1994)
The use of heroic metre in prize-poems was traditional; hence the award was an enviable tribute to the blank-verse of _Timbuctoo_. ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)
An unpractised author has attempted, in this poem, the difficult task of relating a romantic story in blank-verse. ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)
He has fallen into the common error of those who aspire to the composition of blank-verse, by borrowing too many phrases and epithets from our incomparable Milton. ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)
Dr. Johnson's characterization of blank-verse as "poetry to the eye" will be found at the end of his _Life of Milton_ as a quotation from "an ingenious critic." ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)
