10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERSLIBRIST»
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verslibrist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context
The verslibrist's second appeal was to the literary tradition. The principles shared
by the writers collected in Some Imagist Poets "are not new," announces the
1915 preface; "they have fallen into desue— tude. They are the essentials of all ...
2
Concise English Dictionary
(Fr.) n. verse. — n. verslibrist (ver-le'brist) a writer of free verse.— vers d'occasion
(dok-az-y5) occasional verse, produced for a particular event: vers libre (le'br")
free verse. [Fr.] versa! i iir'sjl, n. an ornamental letter at the beginning of a section,
...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
For the writers we have to choose between ' free-versewriter ' (since the handier '
freeverser ' would probably be thought unduly familiar by the designated) & '
verslibrist' (as queer a fish for English waters as bellettrist) or its jocose ...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal, 2009
4
Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
In the 1910s, Gertrude Stein became widely known in America as a verslibrist
and a writer of cubist prose. Thanks to the lively ongoing national conversation in
newspapers and periodicals about books and art, her name was in the news with
...
5
Ezra Pound: The Contemporary Reviews
... with the consequence that we now have professed “schools” of poetry calling
themselves Imagist or Verslibrist respectively. These are examples of what I
mean in saying that Mr. Pound loves to hitch his Waggon to a star. It must be
admitted, ...
6
Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition: A Jargoner's ...
The most fanatical verslibrist will escape them with difficulty' (Pound, 'T. S. Eliot',
Poetry 10 [1917], p. 421. Qtd in Sullivan, Ezra Pound, p. 80). Qtd in Sullivan, Ezra
Pound, p. 27. Ibid. p. 80. It is again worth noting that Robert Bridges published ...
Yet, as we have seen, Mr. Pound has elevated each of them to be the star of a
cult, with the consequence that we now have professed 'schools' of poetry calling
themselves Imagist or Verslibrist respectively. These are examples of what I
mean ...
8
Robert Creeley's Life and Work: A Sense of Increment
The final stanza of "For Ann" (the whole poem, for that matter), the last poem in
the book, should be enough to convince the most hidebound verslibrist that
rhyme can be adapted to even a short-lined free verse unobtrusively, with
musical ...
9
Chambers concise dictionary
[16c: from Latin versio, versionis, from vertere to turn] □ versional adj. vers libre /
vea 'lkbra, FrveR libR/ >n (vers libres /vea 'libra; FrveR libR/) FREE VERSE. □
verslibrist /vea'li:bnst/ n. verso / 'v3:sou/ > n (versos) printing 1 the back of a loose
...
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Books in General, Second Series
Mr. Lloyd. George. as. a. VersLibrist. BOOKS about Mr. Lloyd George have been
pouring from the press ever since he became Prime Minister. The oddest that I
have seen is The Wit and Wisdom of Lloyd George, by Dan Rider. It is an ...
Sir John Collings Squire, 1920
