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Entries: Accentualism - "The exponents of accentualism include Joshua Steele, William Blake, and most of the significant writers of verse of the nineteenth century." Age of the Romantic Movement - "...William Blake's Songs of Innocence had appeared in 1789, and adumbrations of romanticism had been apparent in English writing throughout much of the eighteenth century..." Apocalyptic - "The 'prophetic books' of William Blake are considered apocalyptic..." Canon - "For instance, the 'traditional' romantic canon (Blake, [...]) excludes the many publishing women writers of the age." Closed Couplet - "Almost all instances in English are iambic tetrameter or pentameter, as in these closed couplets by Blake and Pope:

A dog starved at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. Criticism - Listed among other critics of the early nineteenth century. Demotion - "Demotion usually involves monosyllables of which the stress depends on the context, as in the first line of William Blake's 'London'---'I wanter thro' each charter'd street.' 'I' and 'each' are potentially important monosyllables that could recieve stress---'Í wándĕr thró éach chártĕr'd stréet.'---but because of the percussive influence of the iambic rhythm, they may be demoted; thus: 'Ĭ wándĕr thró ĕach chártĕr'd stréet.'" Free Verse - "By the eighteenth century, a few far-seeing poets could manage without rhyme, meter, or regular rhythm, and Christopher Smart and William Blake could write a verse qualifying for the term 'free.'" Lyric - "Burns and Blake raised the lyric to new power." Mad Song - "A poem in Blake's Poetical Sketches (1783) is titled 'Mad Song'..." Mysticism - "...although to call any single writer---with a few exceptions such as Richard Rolle of Hampole and William Blake---a mystic is to invite a challenge." Myth - Listed among notable such "myth-makers." Neoclassic Period - "By 1798, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake had already launched their careers (romantic writers)." Octosyllabic Verse - "Although it lends itself to what Byron called a 'fatal facility,' it has been used vividly and memorably by Herrick, Vaughan, Marvell, and Blake." Ploce - "A kind of repetition whereby different forms and senses of a word are 'woven' through an utterance, as in Blake's '...And mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe' The first 'mark' is a verb; the second and third are nouns." Quaternion - "Whether any quadratic or fourfold work---[...] Blake's 'London,' [...]---ought to be called a quaternion depends on whether the quantitative structured is markedly foregrounded." Rhyme - "(Marvell and Blake so promote 'eternity' and 'symmetry' that they rhyme with 'lie' and 'eye.')" Romanticism - "...it was not until the middle of the century that its characteristics became prominent and self-conscious ([...], and somewhat later Cowper, Burns, and Blake)..." Vatic - Listed among those who have been called vatic poets. Vision - His Visions of the Daughters of Albion is listed as a typical title.