Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. That’s how Robert Frost begins his poem, “Mending Wall.” A poem about fences, sure, but also about rituals and repetition, about stubbornness ...

who apparently “supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you,” where his co-writer is implying that Shakespeare is competent at ordinary speech (blank verse ...

The Prince (Alvan Bolling II, convincingly regal and skillful with his blank verse) mercifully exiles Romeo to Mantua, though the separated lovers can’t see his mercy. Juliet, so recently (but ...

Gate of Lilacs is, in Clive James’s words, a ‘quinzaine of rhapsodies’: a poem of fifteen parts in blank verse that is also a critical essay on Proust. ‘His book,’ says James, ‘big for a book, is ...