She said English versifier Geoffrey Parsons was " dead right " 42 years ago when he gave this advice to office-holders who were under pressure to make a premature decision : " The proper procedure, to take my advice, is : Appoint a commission and stave off the crisis ."
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What inspires these versifiers to wax poetic for publication are paid ads and public service notices that run in newspapers and magazines around the country-- even on the Internet-- announcing literary contests and guaranteeing a grand prize of $ 500 or $ 1, 000 for the winning poem and publication for a select few.
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The Versifiers, Composers, Inventers of tales, Jesters, and in short, all of this Country who studied what they called the Gay Science, began about the Time of Hugh | " Capet, " to set upon Romancing with great Fury; and soon over-ran France, by dispersing them.
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The urban Muse was on the move the other night : 15 " slam poets " _ competitive-minded junior high school versifiers _ journeyed here on Dec . 16 from east of the river, the threadbare cusp of the city, to have it out in a mainline bookstore five blocks from the White House.
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A later critic, applying a Talmudic witticism to Judah, has said : " It is hard for the dough when the baker himself calls it bad . " Although these forms came to him naturally and without effort, unlike the mechanical versifiers of his time, he would not except himself from the number of those he had blamed.
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City of Discovery has also organized lectures and poetry competitions and on Sept . 29, the anniversary of McGonagall's death, there will be a dinner, eaten backward from dessert to starter course, in homage to the eccentric versifier who liked to recite his work in pubs, dressed in full Highland dress and wielding a broadsword ( and sometimes pelted with rotten fruit ).
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In 1958, New York Times reviewer Anzia Yezierska said that Fisher lights the commonplace moment with wonder . According to the Poetry Foundation, her poems are " suffused with curiosity and love for the workings of the natural world . " The " New York Times Book Review " called her " a true poet, no mere light versifier . " In " I Heard a Bluebird Sing"
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The majority of versifiers in Canada were to cling to this mode of expression until the beginning of the 1940s . " While some Canadians were writing modernist poetry & ndash; W . W . E . Ross, R . G . Everson, Raymond Knister, and Dorothy Livesay were all publishing Imagist poetry in free verse & ndash; " Their activity was individual and unrelated; their poems appeared in American and English literary publications.
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He became what Doug Fetherling in the " Canadian Encyclopedia " called " a barnstorming versifier with an unbending faith in his own greatness . " MacDonald travelled both Canada and the northern United States reciting his poetry in large city and small town alike . " His personal shyness disappeared on stage, where he became dynamic; humming, chanting, and singing, he synchronized his whole performance to make poems come alive for his audience ."
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During this service, he is pestered by a variety of unwelcome visitors including a young versifier out to hire himself to the new city as its official poet, an oracle-monger with prophecies for sale, a famous geometer, Meton, offering a set of town-plans, an imperial inspector from Athens with an eye for a quick profit, and a statute-seller trying to peddle a set of laws originally written for a remote, barely-heard-of town called Olophyx.
