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Learn about the love poetry written by Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Lady Mary Wroth during the Renaissance
An introduction to the love sonnets of the female poets of the Renaissance, including...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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International Festival of Poetry
Poems hanging from an outdoor poetry line during the annual International Festival...
Christiane St-Pierre, Festival International de la Poesie
“Forsythia”
“Forsythia” (1966), by Mary Ellen Solt, is an example of concrete poetry, a genre...
By permission of Mary Ellen Solt
classical poetic metre
Classical poetic metre in music.
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rhythmic metre
Classification of rhythmic metre in music.
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