Poetry at Troynovant:
cadences of poets, poems, & poetic inspiration;
listed by Title
We also have a specific index page for William Shakespeare at Troynovant.
Waves diminish,
still water tepid:
profundity sank long ago.
| Best of Rilke, The (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Rainer Maria Rilke | RW Franson |
| Emergency Reading or, Never Without a Book |
RW Franson | |
| Faust A Tragedy (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | RW Franson |
| Freddy and the Ignormus | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| Green Hills of Earth, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Gunga Din [film] | Kipling / Stevens | RW Franson |
| Horatius at Khazad-dum | WH Stoddard | |
| Mirror of Myth, The Classical Themes & Variations |
Jasper Griffin | RW Franson |
| Move the Stones of Rome to Rise Hearing Mark Antony |
RW Franson | |
| Norton Shakespeare, The | William Shakespeare | RW Franson |
| On Blake's 'The Tyger' | A Karra | |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | RW Franson |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Edward FitzGerald | RW Franson |
| Songs of Love and Grief (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Heinrich Heine | RW Franson |
| Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Stephen Greenblatt | RW Franson |
| Wireless | Rudyard Kipling | RW Franson |
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| Poetic Troynovant renewing Troy in dreaming rhyme |
RW Franson | |
| Speaking through Texts manifest culture; & action this day |
RW Franson | |
[Forest of Ardenne.]
Touchstone:
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Audrey:
I do not know what 'poetical' is. Is it honest in deed and word? Is it a true thing?
Touchstone:
No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning, and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry it may be said, as lovers, they do feign.
Audrey:
Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me poetical?
Touchstone:
I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art honest. Now if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope thou did feign.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It, 3.3.9-22
"Meters are the cattle of the gods," we read in the Satapatha Brahmana. ... When we think of meters, we may perhaps glimpse the vague outline of a rhythm, but not much more. ...The "meters" are the robes that the gods "wrapped around themselves" so that they might come near to the fire without being disfigured ... Thus the gods sought to escape death. And likewise men — for men always tell themselves: "I must do as the gods did."
Mind alone, word alone, are impotent — or at least not powerful enough to take an offering to the gods. The horse of the mind must submit to the harness of the word, of the meters; otherwise it would lose its way. ... Meter is the yoke of the word.
If the gods reached the heavens through a form, how much more will men have need of form if they are to reach the gods. And only the meters will allow men to become creatures who, though mortal, know how to use the forms the gods used. ...
Now we begin to see why literature is so often connected to immortality, and in a sense far more radical than the ... rather modest achievement of being remembered by future generations.
Roberto Calasso
Literature and the Gods (2001)
Jennifer M. Franson's site for
Medieval and Renaissance
Verse Forms:
rhyme schemes, notes, and examples
Charles L. Weatherford's Poetry Base
provides information to assist in developing new poets
LitCrit at Troynovant
critiques in and around literary criticism
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