From: Ruth I. Gordon <Druthgo_at_sonic.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:14:45 -0700

Thanks for providing Nina Lindsay's excellent article about novels with broken lines.

I had been planning to send out a general S.O.S. for help to explain how "verse" (or whatever) is defined. I have been somewhat impatient with the spate of books purporting to be in verse because so many since OUT OF THE DUST appeared to be merely sentence broken into short lines looking like "poetry."

When I was in high school and college, we did have novels in verse--and very formal verse at that., e.g., ballades, "Spoon River," and others of that ilk. But I still need a definition to guide me.

Thank you all.

Big Grandma
Received on Fri 13 Apr 2012 05:14:45 PM CDT