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  2. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry—audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter. The Oxford Book of Ballads, complete 1910 book by Arthur Quiller-Couch; English Broadside Ballad Archive—an archive of images and recordings of over 4,000 pre-1700 broadside ballads; A Book of Old English Ballads public domain audiobook at ...

  3. Laurence Perrine - Wikipedia

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    He began his distinguished career as a member of SMU's English faculty in 1946 and was named the Daisy Deane Frensley Professor of English Literature in 1968. Perrine's works include textbooks on the appreciation of poetry and fiction entitled Sound and Sense and Story and Structure , first published in 1956 and 1959 respectively.

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Also based on two of the film adaptations of that book: Village of the Damned and Children of the Damned [77] [78] "Christabel" No Kinda Dancer: Robert Earl Keen: Christabel: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [79] "Cometh Down Hessian" Blessed Black Wings: High on Fire "The Hound" H. P. Lovecraft [2] "Communion of the Cursed" Every Trick in the Book: Ice ...

  5. GCE Ordinary Level (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    O-level logo. The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level, also called the O-level or O level, was a subject-based academic qualification.Introduced in 1951 as a replacement for the 16+ School Certificate (SC), the O-level would act as a pathway to the new, more in-depth and academically rigorous A-level (Advanced Level), in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

  6. 'O' Level - Wikipedia

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    Fuelled by punk and the early Beatles, 'O' Level was formed in 1976 by Ed Ball with friends from the London Oratory School, John and Gerard Bennett, on drums and bass guitar respectively. Together they played at school discos and youth centres, until fellow school friend Daniel Treacy invited Ball to join him in the studio to record a single.

  7. Portal:Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The first lines of the Iliad Great Seal Script character for poetry, ancient China. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

  8. Sound poetry - Wikipedia

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    Schwitters also wrote a less well-known sound poem consisting of the sound of the letter W. (Albright, 2004) Chilean Vicente Huidobro's explores phonetic mutations of words in his book "Altazor" (1931). In his story The Poet at Home, William Saroyan refers to a character who practices a form of pure poetry, composing verse of her own made-up words.

  9. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Book Third: Residence at Cambridge 1799–1805 "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799–1805 "Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fifth: Books 1799–1805