Anisha Inkspill’s Reviews > A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry > Status Update

covering Elegy next

the next section looks at differnet forms of poetry

blank verse was the first one

I did not know Henry Howard, Earl of Essex (and Anne Boleyn's uncle), was the one who introduced it into English when translating Virgil's Aeneid.

that's so interesting :)

tough to get into at first, making me look at poetry ina new way