Pattern Poetry: A Historical Critique from the Alexandrian Greeks to Dylan Thomas

acrostics allegory altar appearance Appendix Arte of English aspects baptism Biblical birth born Calligrammes calligraphic carmina quadrata century CHAPTER Child Christ contrivance Crane Crucifixion cubist cultural Cummings dark death Djinns Dosiadas Dylan Thomas E. E. Cummings earth Easter Wings effects eighteenth elements emblem emotive England English Poesie evoke expression external shape Ezra Pound geometrical George Herbert George Puttenham George Wither Greek Anthology Guillaume Apollinaire Hart Crane heart bone Holz Holz's hourglass Hugo Ibid imagery influence jinns light lines literary literature lost lyric maidenhead medieval metaphysical poetry nature object pattern poems pattern poetry perhaps Persian pictorial poem was originally poet poet's poetic pray Puttenham reality religious poets revival rhetorical movement Robert Herrick salvation secular seventeenth-century shaped verse Shattuck silhouette Simias spiral of ascension spirit stanza style taste techniques technopaegnia theme thought trend typographical unchristened mountain Vision and Prayer visual womb words wren Bone writing York