
“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.
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“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.
Ingeborg Glier, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 184.
Praise
“One man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”
Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)