Occasional Verse

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-241
Author(s):  
Colin A. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Department ◽  
Typical Experience ◽  
Occasional Verse

This novel and sensitive portrayal of a typical experience in an outpatient department was written by a Resident in psychiatry following a six month's rotation in that department.

scholarly journals Vasilii Petrov and The Poetics of Patronage

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Luba Golburt
Keyword(s):  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lyric Voice ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Occasional Verse

This article seeks to bridge the gap between sociohistorical and aesthetic readings of Russian occasional verse by arguing that patronage itself can be seen as engendering its own poetics. The author focuses on hitherto unanalyzed features of Vasilii Petrov's lyrics addressed to various patrons. The close readings of Petrov’s odes and epistles call attention to the poet’s coordinating syntax as structuring the subordinative relationships between poet and patron, and articulating discourses of friendship, community, and the public, of civic virtue, and of social and lyric interdependence. The essay ultimately arrives at a definition of the poetics of patronage, in which the poet claims agency without insisting on his autonomy (as would his successors in the Romantic period), and in which the lyric voice relies upon an other, drawing inspiration from conditions of relationship rather than isolation.

A medley of occasional verse

1925 ◽  
Vol CXLVIII (jun06) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Keyword(s):  
Occasional Verse

The Poet and the Philanthropists: William Chapman's Aspirational Bid for the Nobel Prize

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Erin E. Edgington
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
North American ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Poetic Practice ◽  
Occasional Verse ◽  
Considerable Body

French Canadian poet William Chapman is generally dismissed as second-rate imitator of Lamartine, Hugo or his compatriot Louis Fréchette. Chapman's bitter feud with Fréchette has been – much more than the five collections of verse he published between 1876 and 1912 – his claim to fame. Despite being at odds with his North American contemporaries, Chapman was indefatigable in his pursuit of literary prestige. Chapman's quest for literary honours including the Nobel Prize, while it has thus far attracted the derision of critics, in fact provides context for a deeper understanding of his poetic practice within the shifting philanthropic landscape of the turn of the century. Close readings of two of Chapman's poems, ‘À M. Andrew Carnegie’ and ‘Nobel’, alongside contemporary journalistic sources, point to a new understanding of Chapman's considerable body of occasional verse and of Chapman himself as a savvy professional attuned to the developing ‘economy of prestige’.

Miscellany Publication

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-100
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
The Third ◽  
Final Volume ◽  
The World ◽  
Scribal Publication ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Occasional Verse

This chapter addresses Pope’s hitherto neglected use of miscellany publication. With the exceptions of An Essay on Criticism, The Temple of Fame, and Windsor-Forest, all Pope’s early printed poems first appeared in miscellanies or periodicals. Three miscellanies are of particular importance: the sixth and final volume of Jacob Tonson’s Poetical Miscellanies (1709), Bernard Lintot’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1712), and Poems on Several Occasions (1717), also published by Lintot. A section is devoted to each of those miscellanies. Pope made his public print debut in the first one, was the guiding spirit behind the second, and the editor of the third. In his roles as contributor and editor, Pope encouraged friends to contribute to the collections too, dragging them from the world of clandestine scribal publication into that of print. The chapter scrutinizes the content surrounding Pope’s poems in these miscellanies and teases out the sophisticated political resonances of those texts. By 1717 Pope had transformed the miscellany from a mere vessel for minor occasional verse into a focal point for dissident wits who otherwise wrote principally for scribal publication.

The Work of Verse

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-62
Author(s):  
Kirstie Blair
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Occasional Verse ◽  
Opening Section ◽  
The Way

The first chapter provides an introduction to, and overview of, ‘occasional’ verse and performed verse, and considers the functions of newspaper poetry columns. Its broad remit underpins the detailed studies in the later chapters, and sets up the arguments about the work done by Scottish working-class poetry that re-occur in these. It contains an opening section discussing why working-class poetry came to seem so prevalent in Scotland, and how it became considered vital to Scottish cultural identity. This is followed by subsections on the role of occasional verse in commemorating and celebrating particular events or social occasions, the rise of newspaper poetry columns, and the way in which these columns fostered poetic communities.

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