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Features examples of Arabic and Oriental shaped poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book visually interprets Lewis Carroll's language using the techniques of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover drawing is by Tom Clark. "Shaped Poetry" published by Arion Press, which is listed, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Describes the discovery by two high school students of mouse-shaped poems within Lewis Carroll's the classic "mouse's tail poem" of Alice in Wonderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes chapter "Poetic Pictures," which provides examples of shaped and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a Ph.D. thesis whose purpose was to trace the appearance of shapes in English poetry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Church found that the pattern poetry had its origins in Greek and Hindi literature. Greek literature contains six examples of pattern poetry: an axe, an egg, a pair of wings, a shepard's pipe, and two alters. Church defines Carmina Quadrata as verses that contain as many lines as each line contains letters. Within these boxlike poems are acrostics, telestichs, and many pictures and designs. The pictures are formed by either capitalizing the letters which outline the figure or by writing them in inks of various colors. Quincunx are poems arranged in oblique lines that can be read from either the upper or lower levels to make sense with either choice (p.51). Pattern poems reached the Anglo-Saxon literature in the 8th century. Alcuin of York wrote two Carmina Quadrata addressed to the cross. Hrabamus Maurus was one of Alcuin's followers. In 1573, pattern poetry...