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scansion

Critical Essays

Scansion and Contemporary Poetry
ByEmilia Phillips October 20, 2017

How might the practice of scansion as a tool toward understanding and crafting poetry become more equitable and expansive so as to allow for poets’ and readers’ different fundamental orientations toward language?

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Notes on the State of Virginia: Journey to the Center of an American Document, Queries VII, VIII, and IX
ByKiki Petrosino June 19, 2016July 14, 2025

In these three queries, Jefferson attempts to distill the complex meteorological, demographic, and military features of Virginia into a series of data points. His prose—supplemented by graphical tables tracking everything from rainfall to carriage wheels—draws a fine grid over the natural and human activities of the Commonwealth.

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