Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Great Regulars: Because of the abundance

of rime, Edgar Allan Poe was labeled by his contemporaries as "The Jingle Man." It was probably Ralph Waldo Emerson who first applied that term to Poe, but Walt Whitman also felt that Poe overused rime.

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: The Jingle Man

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