The Golden Gate (1986), a full-length novel in verse, was a tour de force.
There was also a tribute in verse delivered expertly by Ian Landles to the "Man that oo ca' Bill".
Immortalized in verse, novel and opera, the story has been altered and adapted over the centuries to suit the times.
Anyone, accordingly, who tries to mark out the history of the 20th century in verse faces a fairly steep slope of disbelief.
The long list includes former actress Kitty Aldridge for her third novel, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men, while Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers is the first novel written in verse to be recognised.
Brown is a New Hampshire resident spending the week in New York to promote "Inferno, " a return to his beloved continent and a chance, he hopes, to interest readers in the classic 14th century journey in verse by Dante that provides the title for his new novel.
Shortly after the show opened, I received a letter from Dr. Howard Rusk, founder of the Rusk Institute, complaining that I had maligned Puerto Rico in the verse, that in fact the island had a very low incidence of tropical disease.
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Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.
This is Homer in English verse, but it is verse of a pleasingly loose-limbed kind.
"One mistake change lives all in one night, " he raps in one verse.
The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.
But with the Arcade Fire, there's no redemption in the final verse, no easy escape out on the highway.
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The most common metrical form is the iambic fifteen-syllable verse in a rhyming couplet, although a poet may use eight-syllable, six-syllable or even nine-syllable verses.
So the goal is to find a way - and look, I'm not going to cite you chapter and verse in the statute.
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In fact, intelligent simplicity is the keynote of the acting and the verse speaking in general.
He pointed to a decree issued by the highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar in Egypt, which he said forbade "any musical arrangement of a Koranic verse, in order to prevent any violation of Islam".
Lerner, a poet in his early thirties who has written three books of verse, is interested in whether words truly belong to us.
But it was Goethe who, in the richest of verse, made of it a drama with truly Germanic resonance.
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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
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So my sense of seasonal happiness on Christmas Eve intensifies as the King's College Choir and congregation reach the final verse of Once in Royal David's City.
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