Poetry Terms - G. This is a comprehensive resource of poetry terms beginning with the letter G.
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Meter composed of two iambic dimeters e.g. Tennyson's Boadicea.
Kind or style of literary output e.g. poem, novel, play, short story etc.
Group of poets whose work was published in a series of volumes between 1912-1922 by Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro and Edward Marsh. It includes: D. H. Lawrence, John Masefield, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Ralph Hodgson, Edward Thomas, James Stephens, Andrew Young, J.C.Squire, James Elroy Flecker, A.E.Housman and Robert Graves. Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden later objected to being labelled 'Georgian'.
Poems about farming or farmers. The term derives from Virgil's carmina georgica.
Arabic love poem or love-song.
Minstrel or entertainer.
A lyric meter invented by the Greek poet Glykon.
Verse containing gnomes, maxims and aphorisms. It particularly refers to the work of certain sixth and seventh centuries B.C. Greek poets - such as Theognis.
Onomatopoeic word (derived from the noise made by poultry) for incomprehensible or jargon-laden writing/language.
Influential anthology compiled by F.T. Palgrave and first published in 1861.
Verse written during the 12th and 13th centuries and attributed to the Goliards who were wandering scholars. It was primarily written in Latin and was ribald and satirical in tone. The most notable collection of Goliardic verse is the Carmina Burana which was discovered in the monastery of Benediktbeuern in 1803.
Elaborate and affected poetic style which was originated by the 16th century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote.
Term coined by Matthew Arnold (in one of his Oxford lectures) to describe the lofty, elevated tone of poets such as Homer, Pindar, Dante and Milton etc.
Group of 18th century poets who specialised in poetry on the subject of human mortality - often set in graveyards. The group included Thomas Parnell, Edward Young, Robert Blair and most notably Thomas Gray.
Poetry group founded in London in 1955 by Philip Hobsbaum and his wife. Members of the group included: Peter Porter, Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove, George MacBeth and Edward Lucie-Smith.
Originally a street near Moorfields in London inhabited by minor writers and poets. The term is now synonymous with literary hackwork.
Chinese poetic term which literally means 'old poetry'. However, it is more normally used to refer to less formal verse than jintishi.
Welsh syllabic verse form. See awdl.