so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clu...

This paper describes an implemention to visualize poetic text. Keywords-component; formatting; text visualization; information visualization, phoneme analysis

Biological systems grow, live, adapt, and reproduce, characteristics that are not truly encompassed by any existing computing system. If one considers life on Earth since its very beginning, three levels of organization can be distinguished: phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis. Machines that combine evolutionary mechanisms (Phylogeny), developmental processes (Ontogeny), and learning algorithms...

Despite parallels between the structure of poetry composition tasks and design tasks, there appears to be no previous research exploring the consequences of these correspondences for an understanding of skilled behaviour in these two domains. In the present study we interviewed five expert poets about their creative practices and conducted a thematic analysis comparing these practices to key fi...

The power of poetry is universally acknowledged, but it is debatable whether its appreciation is reserved for experts. Here, we show that readers with no particular knowledge of a traditional form of Welsh poetry unconsciously distinguish phrases conforming to its complex poetic construction rules from those that violate them. We studied the brain response of native speakers of Welsh as they re...

Jen Webb reviews Julia Prendergast’s Bloodrust; Kevin Brophy Paul Magee’s Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought; Dominic Symes Marcelle Freiman’s Spirit Level; Fazzari Marion May Campbell’s languish, Rosemary Williamson Roslyn Petelin’s How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective (2nd Edition).

Abstract This article analyzes a little-known practice called iqtirāḥ —“test of poetic talent” or “poetic competition”—that proliferated in twentieth-century Persian-language periodicals. It examines two case studies: one Tehran 1928, which mythologized Nādir Shah (r. 1736–1747), Turko-Persian monarch, as national hero, and Kabul 1932, eulogized Muḥammad 1920–1933), ruling monarch at the time, ...