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“Sprung Rhythm: When Poetry Got Tired of Marching and Started Skipping”

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Hopkins, Nursery Rhymes, and the Great Metrical Rebellion ABS Believes: Poetic rhythm shouldn’t behave like a parade. It should behave like a toddler on sugar: unpredictable, adorable, and terrifyingly free. The Meter That Misbehaved There are two types of rhythm in this world: The kind that walks into a room, straightens its tie, and recites […]

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Poetry in English Literature

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Quick Access To the Four Master Scrolls Drama and Theatre in English Literature Poetry in English Literature Fiction and Short Stories in English Literature Non Fiction and Prose in English Literature The Essence of Poetry: Rhyme, Meter, Emotion, and Artistic License Poetry is a form of literary expression in English literature that uses language, structure,

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3. Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn (1860s–1901)

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From the Last Glow of Beauty to the First Shadows of Modern Doubt From The Professor’s Desk As the long Victorian century neared its close, the tone of its poetry grew more muted, its certainties more fragile. This was the realm of Late Victorian Poets and the Aesthetic Turn—a moment when verse turned inward, away

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1. Victorian Visions: Faith, Fiction, and the Fractured Empire

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Victorian Poetry between the Pull of the Past and the Pressure of Progress (1832–1860s) From The Professor’s Desk PRELUDE: From Romantic Rhapsody to Victorian Realism Literary history never begins or ends cleanly at a monarch’s coronation, or with the signing of a single Act. Yet in the England of the 1830s, a series of tremors

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Lyric-Scroll 017: Because I Could Not Stop for Death: When Emily Dickinson Turned Mortality into a Carriage Ride

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A Poem Where Death Picks You Up Like a Gentleman and Drives You to Eternity (Very Slowly) ABS Believes:Death doesn’t always knock. Sometimes he arrives in a buggy and waits politely.In Dickinson’s world, mortality was not a monster—but more of a misunderstood Uber driver. Emily Dickinson: Poet in Slippers, Queen of the Quiet Dismantling Emily

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Lyric-Scroll 016: Dover Beach: When Matthew Arnold Took His Girl to the Seaside and Gave Her an Existential Crisis

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Victorian Romance, Religious Decline, and the Saddest Beach Trip in English Poetry ABS Believes:When faith retreats like the tide, at least bring someone who won’t ghost you in the surf.Nothing says “love poem” like historical despair and light military metaphors. Matthew Arnold: Poet, Professor, and the Victorian Vibe-Checker Matthew Arnold was the guy who looked

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Lyric-Scroll 008: If You Can Stay Calm While Everyone Else Self-Destructs: Kipling’s Emotional Instruction Manual

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Stoicism, Sweat, and One Man’s Quest to Explain Manhood in 32 Lines (Without Breathing) ABS Believes:Some poems hold your hand. This one slaps it, gives you a checklist, and walks off.“If—” is less a poem, more a poetic gym instructor yelling through rhyme. Kipling: The Poet Who Wrote Pep Talks in Pentameter Rudyard Kipling didn’t

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Lyric-Scroll 005 : My Last Duchess: When Victorian Dukes Invented Red Flags

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A Portrait, a Power Trip, and One Very Polite Murder ABS Believes:Some relationships end with closure. Others end with a frame and suspiciously poetic euphemisms.A smile may be priceless—but in the wrong hands, it gets taxed, confiscated, and posthumously curated. Enter the Duke: Monologue Extraordinaire, Murderer (Allegedly) Robert Browning didn’t write love poems. He wrote

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