He was catapulted into fame, a phenomenon — the verse-making shoemaker and farmer's boy — in demand in the drawing rooms and salons of the rich. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For the non-scholar, Hay's group biography of the Shelleys, Byron and their circle is complete bliss: a feat of concision and clear thinking that will remind you why, all those years ago, when you were young and foolish, you were so thrilled by these writers, by their unruly credos and marvellous verse-making, by their frilled shirts and luxuriant hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Liverpool poets emerged from the culture created by the beat generation in the United States but while McGough gladly embraced the freedoms proposed by Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Corso and others, both in verse-making and in everyday life, he was the beat you could take home to meet mum. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)
Then she began to walk, swaying from side to side with gracefullest gait, whilst Hubub who excelled in verse-making, recited in her honour these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)
Priestley got it about right: "His essential poetry, as distinct from his uninspired verse-making, can be reduced to a very small volume, containing ecstatic moments of communion expressed in lines unlike those of any other poet, apparently simple in language and structure but curiously haunting, necromantic, as if brought from some depth of ancient incantation." ❋ Frank Wilson (2007)
The regret that I felt for this, while I lingered alone to dream for a little by myself, made me suffer so acutely that, in order not to feel it, my mind of its own accord, by a sort of inhibition in the instant of pain, ceased entirely to think of verse-making, of fiction, of the poetic future on which my want of talent precluded me from counting. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Particularly in its last few stanzas, Clare's Don Juan inverts the assumption that "poets are born" and mocks the Haroldian faith that "Poets and Poesy are aspirations/Of minds superior to the common lot" (LP 125), reducing verse-making to sheer materiality: ❋ Unknown (1999)
The cor - onation of poets — which began at Padua with the honoring of Albertino Mussato in 1314 and is best known from Petrarch's coronation by the Roman Sen - ate in 1341 — was little more than an academic degree granted less for pieces of original poetry than for ver - satility in verse-making, composition, and inter - pretation of ancient poetical works (Kristeller). ❋ PETER HERDE (1968)
It consisted mainly of the study of poetics and verse-making and of the interpretation and imitation of ancient poets. ❋ PETER HERDE (1968)
As the art of verse-making was less developed in Italy than in France before the second half of the thirteenth century, the Paduan group of pre-humanists, Albertino ❋ PETER HERDE (1968)
We must remember that the art of song went hand in hand with the art of verse-making. ❋ Emily Hickey (N/A)
He was a man of great pleasantry, some wit, and perpetual verse-making -- the name of poetry is not to be stooped to such compositions as his; but their liveliness and locality, their application to existing times and persons, and their occasional hits at politics and principles, made both them and their author popular. ❋ Various (N/A)
Early devoted to verse-making, he composed a tragedy in his ninth year; and at the age of sixteen was the successful competitor in Professor Wilson's class, for a poem on "Idolatry." ❋ Various (N/A)
With talents of a high order, he permitted an enthusiastic attachment to verse-making to interfere with his severer studies and retard his progress in learning. ❋ Various (N/A)
A native love for verse-making, which he possessed in common with his brother Thomas, was fostered and strengthened by his being early brought into personal contact with the poet Burns. ❋ Various (N/A)
After the process of translation had discovered to him his verse-making faculty, he naturally passed on to the writing of original poems, and circumstances of a half accidental sort determined that the Scottish ballads which he had always loved should absorb his attention for the next two or three years. ❋ Margaret Ball (N/A)
While the Eighth Henry was still ruling England, Surrey and Wyatt, heedful of things Italian, had already discovered that verse-making was at any rate ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She was apt to regard bathing, hair-brushing, dressing, and lessons as mere hindrances to some of the particular great businesses of life which specially occupied her -- verse-making, for instance, piano-playing, poaching, or praying, whichever happened to be the predominant interest of the moment. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
He had discovered her talent for verse-making, and given her a book on the subject, full of examples, which was a great joy to her. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
