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	Spasmodic poets - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term "spasmodic," certainly with some derogatory as well as humorous intention, was applied by William Edmonstoune Aytoun to a group of British poets of the Victorian era.
		Spasmodic poets include, possibly with justice, George Gilfillan, the friend and inspiration of William McGonagall.
		Spasmodic poetry frequently took the form of verse drama, the protagonist of which was often a poet.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Metaphysical poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them.
		Their inventive, elaborate style was characterised by learned imagery and subtle argumentation, and the "metaphysical conceit", a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew.
		Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metaphysical-poets (2263 words)

	Australian Information from Wikipedia
		American poet Walt Whitman was one of the first poets to write a kind of poetry now called free verse, though French poet Jules Laforgue was also writing in free verse around the same time as Whitman.
		For this reason, poets occupy a peculiar position in society, even when compared to other artists, tending to reside on the fringes of their culture.
		Poets' Graves are often the focus of literary pilgrimages.
	www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Poet (567 words)

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		The term spasmodic dysphonia doctors texas "spasmodic," certainly with some derogatory as well as humorous intention, spasmodic dysphonia cincinnati treats was applied by William Edmonstoune Aytoun to a group of British poets of the Victorian era.
		Spasmodic poetry spasmodic dysphonia professional singer was extremely popular from the late-1840s through the 1850s when it abruptly fell out of fashion.
		It was characterized adductor spasmodic dysphonia botox spasmodic dysphonia university of michigan by a number of features including lengthy introspective soliloquies by the protagonist, which spasmodic dysphonia texas doctors led to the charge that the poetry was egotistical.
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	Poem - The Encyclopedia
		Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to, prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.
		The underlying concept of the poet as creator is not uncommon, and some modernist poets essentially do not distinguish between the creation of a poem with words, and creative acts in other media such as carpentry.
		Postmodernism goes beyond modernism's emphasis on the creative role of the poet, to emphasize the role of the reader of a text, and to highlight the complex cultural web within which a poem is read.
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	Smith, Alexander Criticism and Essays
		Spasmodic poets closely patterned their style after the Romantic poets, and were criticized for their excessive use of nature imagery and obscure allusions.
		A Spasmodic Tragedy, a parody of the Spasmodic school and its proponent, Gilfillian.
		Aytoun criticized the Spasmodics for over-use of nature images, inclusion of lengthy passages that did not relate to the themes of their works, and lax morals.
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	Glossary Poetic Terms S
		A form developed by the Japanese poet Senryu Karai (1718-1790), which is almost identical to a haiku but takes as its subject matter human issues rather than nature.
		This form was invented by the troubadour poet Arnaud Daniel.
		Group of poets associated with the court of Emperor Frederick II (1220-1250) in Palermo.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /glossary_poetic_terms_s.htm (1681 words)

	§6. Alexander Smith. VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part ...
		Alexander Smith and Sydney Dobell are persons and poets of what we may call more substantive character than those whom we have been mentioning after Bailey.
		Hence, the charge of plagiarism 7, from which he can be victoriously cleared on almost every point—not least so on the famous passage about “the bridegroom sea toying with the shore,” on which Kingsley founded a not very clear-sighted diatribe against what was then modern poetry.
		It is evident, likewise, that he had taken pretty severely the “spasmodic” measles—the nineteenth-century joint revival of fifteenth-century “aureation” and seventeenth century “metaphysicalism”—with a fresh neurosis of Weltschmerz, and so forth.
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		The underlying concept of the poet as a creator is not uncommon, and some modernist poets do not significantly distinguish between the creation of a poem with words and creative acts in other media, such as carpentry.
		Numerous modernist poets wrote in non-traditional forms or in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established by non-metrical methods.
		Postmodernism goes beyond modernism's emphasis on the creative role of the poet to emphasize the role of the reader of a text, and to highlight the complex cultural web through which a poem is read.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of poetry groups and movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation to humanity).
		The Della Cruscans were a set of English sentimental poetasters, the leaders of them hailing from Florence, that appeared in England towards the close of the 18th century, and that for a time imposed on many by their extravagant panegyrics of one another, the founder of the set being one...
		The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets were probably the most significant avant garde grouping in United States poetry in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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	Objectivist poets
		Although these poets generally suffered critical neglect, especially in their early careers, and a number of them abandoned the practice of writing and/or publishing poetry for a time, they were to prove highly influential for later generations of writers working in the tradition of modernist poetry in English.
		The poets of the Beat Generation, a group of American bohemian writers to emerge at the end of the 1940s that included Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, owed much to Pound and Williams, and were led, through them, to the Objectivists.
		Though establishing herself as a poet with tendencies and obsessions at some remove from an Objectivist ethos (or so it may be argued at a first reading) DuPlessis has played a crucial role in the dissemination and survival of Objectivist poetry and poetics well into the 21st century.
	www.wordinfo.co.za /wiki/Objectivist_poets (3384 words)

	The poems page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to, prose, relationship poems which was generally understood as writing with a different types of poems proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.
		The underlying concept christian poems of the poet as creator is not uncommon, and some suicide poems modernist poets essentially do not distinguish between the creation of a poem with words, and creative acts in other media such best friend poems as carpentry.
		Numerous modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms or free verse poems in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established friend poems by non-metrical means.
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	The Group (literature) Information
		The Group was an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s.
		The poets gathered to discuss each other's work, putting into practice the sort of analysis and objective comment in keeping with the principles of Hobsbaum's Cambridge tutor F.
		Lucie-Smith wrote, in a letter to Hobsbaum dated November 1961: 'This is a group of poets who find it possible to meet and discuss each other's work helpfully and without backbiting or backscratching…we have no axe to grind — this isn't a gang and there's no monolithic body of doctrine to which everyone must subscribe'.
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	circle of poets, rythm, poetry, poetry contest, poetry competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many of the better magazines, where the fledgling poet must start his publishing career, will not take traditional poetry, and those with more generous requirements may still lack readers or editors capable of telling the good from the merely facile.
		Circle of Poets believes that strong emotions and moods craft most of the poem and of poetry and creative writing as an art form.
		French poets in particular have created marvels this century with such devices, though the prose poem is admittedly easier in loose hexameters than irregular blank verse.
	rythm.circleofpoets.com (7941 words)

	Algernon Swinburne - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is considered a decadent poet, albeit that he professed to perhaps rather more vice than he actually indulged in, a fact which Oscar Wilde notably and acerbically commented upon.
		His vocabulary, rhyme and metre arguably make him one of the best poets of the English language; but his poetry has been criticized as overly flowery and meaningless, choosing words to fit the rhyme rather than to contribute towards meaning.
		This was as a satire on the spasmodic poets.
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	§7. Sydney Dobell. VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And yet there are grounds for holding Sydney Dobell the greatest poet of the group.
		There is, in them, an idiosyncrasy of strangeness—a faculty of inspiring and surrounding sometimes the very simplest words with an aura or atmosphere of poetic unfamiliarity—which thing whosoever possesses, he passes as a poet without further question.
		None of Dobell’s fellows—not even Elizabeth Barrett Browning—who is a sort of she-spasmodic of the nobler kind—actually has it in the same way or in the same degree.
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	Spasm
		It is sometimes accompanied by a sudden burst of pain, but is usually harmless and ceases after a few minutes.
		Spasmodic muscle contraction may also be due to a large number of medical conditions, however, including the dystonias.
		By extension, a spasm is also a sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
	www.kiwipedia.com /spasm.html (135 words)

	Science in the 19th Century Periodical
		Claims that it is well known that 'the whole race of poets, artists, romancers, novelists—all close their eyes to see' (65), and even 'the pretences of clairvoyants, however much disproved, tell in the same direction' (64).
		However, not even 'among the most extravagant romancers or spasmodic poets, is the effect of looking with the eyes closed so evident as in the scientific interpretation of nature' (65).
		In astronomy, for instance, the 'explanation of the elliptic orbit by gravity is possible only by looking away from, refusing to be influenced by, the obvious appearance—setting free the mind, as it were, by closing the outward sense' (65–66).
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		Spasmodic dysphonia (or laryngeal dystonia) is a voice...
		This kind of spasmodic torticollis is similar to congenital torticollis, but it's rare.
		Spasmodic torticollis (cervical dystonia) is a disorder where the muscles of the...
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	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		The `Spasmodic' poets espoused a crude Romanticism which revered the poet as a divinely inspired being whose eccentricities should be humoured and encouraged, especially in the realm of accepted social conventions, and whose observations were projected through the lens of a melancholy solipsism.
		It is possible to detect the influence of the `Spasmodics' on Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Tennyson.
		After Firmillian the `Spasmodic' tragedy disappeared from serious verse and much of its energy may have been channelled into the sensation novels of the 1860s.
	www.bloomsbury.com /arc/CrossRef.asp?book=9&ref=Spasmodic (142 words)

	Metaphysical poets: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Their style was characterized by wit, subtle argumentations and the "metaphysical conceits", an unusual simile or metaphor such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew.
		Some metaphysical poets, especially John Donne, were influenced by neo-Platonism.
		One of the primary Platonic concepts found in metaphysical poetry was the idea that the perfection of beauty in the beloved acted as a remembrance of perfect beauty in the eternal realm.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Metaphysical_poets (394 words)

	Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Arabic language poets have always used rhyme extensively, most notably in their long, rhyming qasidas.
		Among the masters of the form is the Persian poet Rumi.
		Although the most popular form of western lyric poetry may be the 14-line sonnet — Petrarchan or Shakespearean — lyric poetry has shown a bewildering variety of forms, including increasingly, in the 20th century, unrhymed ones.
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	Maud and other poems *.. ...: a machine readable transcription.
		We have sometimes thought that the spasmodic poets have been dealt with too rigorously by the critics, and that some allowance should have been made for the waywardness of youth and the promise of the future.
		The spasmodic poets generally pretend to exhibit somewhat, however little, of action; they pass off soliloquy for dialogue and dialogue for action, and profess to write with a dramatic intent—life dramas and death dramas, devil dramas and soul dramas.
		Intention!—the intention of a poet is determined by his tastes and habits, and when we find a band of poets abhorrent of action, and piping of disease and poppyheads, and dreams, we may set them down as "mild-eyed, melancholy, lotus-eaters," whose poems reflect their characters.
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	Just How "Silenced" Was Christina Rossetti, Actually? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In fact, if one considers those Victorian poets who've made it into the inner canon defined by being taught in undergraduate courses, one finds a fairly small number: The Brownings, Elizabeth and her brother, Tennyson, Swinburne, Hopkins, and possibly Meredith, Hardy, and Arnold.
		A good many Victorian poets have in fact been marginalized, and they are in general known only to specialists in Victorian poetry, if at all.
		Martin Farquar Tupper, whose doggerel made him one of the most popular and commercially successful Victorian poets, is now virtually unknown, as are the once popular followers of Shelley, the so-called Spasmodic poets.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/crossetti/silenced.html (454 words)

	Alexander Smith (poet) Criticism
		The critic characterized Spasmodic poetry as unoriginal and profane.
		Here, Thayer chronicles the development of maturity in Smith's writing, from his first labeling as a spasmodic poet, to the complex issues addressed in his essays.
		Clough was an author, poet, and critic who wrote in both England and America during the late nineteenth century.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Alexander_Smith_(poet) (590 words)

	Cairo Poets - Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Around 100 poets and researchers from around the world attended the four-day event titled Poetry in Our Life, organised by Egypt's Supreme Council of...
		Keith Douglas, the iconic war poet, was associated with the Personal Landscape group.
		Several of the Cairo poets appeared in the 'Poets in Uniform' issue of Tambimuttu's Poetry London early in 1941.
	www.localfineart.com /encyclopedia/Cairo_poets (572 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| The Spasmodic Gap
		Finally, Florence Saunders Boos, openly partisan, fully engaged, describes the movement's catastrophe, with heroes ambiguously vanquished and villains ambiguously triumphant, leaving the signature effect of alternate history: an exhilarating sense of possibility; a melancholy sense of possibility foreclosed.
		Victorian Poetry essayists describe most Spasmodic targets as first volumes from beginning writers, not outrageously weaker than the first volumes from their better remembered peers, and usually more interesting than any volumes from their most hostile enemies.
		No acknowledged 'major' poet of Victorian Britain came from working- or lower-middle-class origins, and none of the 'spasmodists' is likely to gain more than token entry into any twenty-first-century anthologies.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/the_spasmodic_gap (2873 words)

	The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media
		It's the birthday of avant-garde poet Charles Olson, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (1910).
		It's the birthday of the poet Alexander Smith, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland (1830).
		In 1854, Smith and others were dubbed "Spasmodic" poets by a critic who did not care for their writing, which reflected discontent and unrest through a jerky and strained writing style.
	writersalmanac.publicradio.org /programs/2004/12/27/index.html (8186 words)

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