It's undeniable that Mr. Wilbur's tight-lipped formality and his traditional menu of topics—nature and art uppermost—were out of touch with the naked emotionalism and the shaggy enjambments of the post-Beat generation. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)
Keats, bless his self-taught genius soul, came up with some scary enjambments. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)
At first I focused on the form more than anything, noticing the beats, the enjambments, the end-stops, and trying to figure out the individual feet, but I didn't analyze it that far. ❋ Joshenglish (2007)
And notice what Barbara Guest gains by playing this coiled syntax off against her line breaks: telling enjambments like "taste the dark/grapes" and "coupling mind/and heart"--reminding us that when mind and heart are joined, they join dissimilar things in poetic vision. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)
(I intended only to quote one line, but the enjambments and the surprising accumulation of images in line after line kept me quoting, not able to decide where to stop — it is the power of the poem — just its physical power). ❋ Unknown (2007)
The diaries are filled with enjambments of the mundane and the magical: William is interrupted while writing the opening lines of the "Immortality Ode" by the arrival of cartload of dung for him to work into the garden. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The lyric is an "early song," sung on the dawn of a May morning with the early charm of the English Renaissance song still blossoming in its shifting meters and exuberant enjambments. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Savitri is so likeable as there are no enjambments; so why create artificial chasms? ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2007)
Other poets who use, as she does, short lines, a conversational pace and frequent enjambments can feel rushed or wild. ❋ By STEPHEN BURT (2009)
-- her links go to no other poetry pages (unless you count Moby and Melissa Ethridge) -- her poetry shows no evidence of having read other poetry, lacking rhyme, alliteration, meter, wordplay, interesting enjambments, etc. ❋ Richard Nokes (2005)
It’s the source of much grief and muddle and some very bad enjambments. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)
Louise Bogan once said that somebody’s enjambments gave her the willies, and she’s right, they can do that to you. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)
So I talked about scansion and enjambment and the importance of the invisible rest, and I said that pentameter was really a waltz, and I talked about how some enjambments made Louise Bogan shudder and rightly so, and then something strange came over me and I opened my mouth and out of it came the tune I’d made up for the first stanza of Bogan’s “Roman Fountain.” ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)
I’ll have more to say about it elsewhere (not here), I hope, in a month or two, where with luck I’ll be able to explain (I’ve been trying to articulate it for a few years now) how her irregular rhymes and clustered enjambments and leitmotifs work. ❋ Unknown (2007)
