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Poesy, Prosody, Essays and Critique

Month: August 2024

  • Charging Poetry with Meaning

    With a few words from Ezra Pound Ways to Group Poetry How would you group different styles of poetry? It seems that there are a whole host of ways of doing this. As we may suspect, as many ways as there are individuals. There will be three types of poetry, regardless of your method. Sure,…

  • An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

    Being the Prologue to the SatiresVersion by the University Tutorial Press Ltd, Foxton 1950 What This Is and Is Not. In a similar fashion to other analyses, this review will only consider metrical variations in the verses. However, the common substitution of a trochee for an iamb at the start of a verse will not…