The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fictio… - John Hollander

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The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.

John Hollander

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John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind.

English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.

Ultimately poetic thought is interpretive.

The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral. - John Hollander

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