12) Read, Sir Herbert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His first volume of poems, Naked Warriors (1919), treats the horrors of war. An advocate of free verse, he published poetry all his life; his last volume of Collected...

13) Whittier, John Greenleaf. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...An introduction at the age of 14 to Robert Burns's poetry inspired him to write verse; his first poems were published (1826) in the Newburyport Free Press, edited...

14) Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Brooks's poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the experience of being...

15) V. Milton: Bibliography. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...printed from the original editions with a life of the author. 8 vols. Ed. Mitford, J. 1851. POEMS Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, Compos d at several...

16) Williams, William Carlos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...poetic trends of the time-from metaphorical imagism in Poems (1909) and The Tempers (1913) to free-verse expressionism in Al Que Quiere! (1917), Kora in Hell (1920),...

17) Su Tung-p'o. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...beauty and the limited span of life. Su is also noted for his fu, satiric poems which approach free verse, and for letters and essays. 1See translations by B. Watson...

18) §1. Definition of the Subject. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...shorter poems, lyrics, of whatever purpose, hymns, flytins, political satires, mawkish stories in verse, sensational journalism of Elizabethan days and even the translation...

19) §8. Anti-Slavery Poems. XIII. Whittier. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...all enlisted in the warfare against this monstrous evil, and did yeoman service in the cause of freedom, but Whittier alone gave himself heart and soul to the crusade,...

20) verse 1. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...from prose; poetry. 3a. The art or work of a poet. b. A group of poems: read a book of satirical verse. 4. Metrical writing that lacks depth or artistic merit. 5....