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This is the most experimental issue of the EX series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. A facsimile of Petrus Apianus' " Astonomicum Caesareum," was offered for sale at this action; this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a survey of medieval, Latin shaped poetry with critical text. Several pages by Rabano Mauro (Hrabamus Maurus) are reproduced from a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a survey of medieval, Latin shaped poetry with critical text. Several pages by Rabano Mauro (Hrabamus Maurus) are reproduced from a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book contains several examples of 17th century shaped poems from poets who lived in the Austrian-Hungarian empire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes reproduction of pages in Wolfgang Fugger's Ein nutzlich und wolgegrundt Formular Manncherly schoner Schiefften, Nurnberg, 1553 and Theocritus' Idyllia Trigentasex .... Venice, 1539. The former depicts shaped calligraphic German text, the latter a poem outlined by an axe shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The author indicates that emblem books contained poems based upon religious texts that might be classified as Picture Poems today in terms of visual presentation, viz., an illustration with a poetic caption. The author demonstrates that Herbert's pattern poems were extensions of the Emblematic tradition. He also provides several other examples of Alter poems in the classic literature. According to others, the religious content is not a mandatory feature of emblem poems.The emblem poem depicted in this bibliographic citation was taken from Withers' "A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne" (1635). "The picture shows a rural landscape in which the sun, with kindly countenance, is shooting its rays with an eye at its center. The text is about sight and the eye of contemplation as the human faculty that was especially created by God for its capacity to achieve direct contact with Him." Westerweel adds, The vocabulary and ideas are Neoplatonic and are reminescent of the final...

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This paper is a well researched survey of concrete and visual poetry done by an undergraduate student. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chapter 2 entitled "Figured Poetry" describes ancient shaped poetry and Includes analyses of the poems of the 17th century English poets such as George Herbert who composed the shaped poem, Easter Wings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Juan Catamuel's (1606-1682) father was an aristocratic engineer from Luxembourg, his mother was of noble birth too and from Bohemia; they lived in Madrid. Caramuel was interested in mathematics and astronomy right from his childhood. In 1625, Caramuel entered the monastery of the Cistercian order La Espina, Diocese Palencia, Spain, and then made a brilliant career in the Church, as genius (sometimes Spanish Leibniz) and as famous preacher. Caramuel was befriended with the Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658). He is comparable to the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680).At frst Caramuel received the usual special education at a College. He studied Theology at the University of Alacala de Henares nearby Madrid, where he finished with the Magister Artium. Then he continued his studies at the University of Salamanca and from 1632 onwards at the University of Leuven, where he was a promotor of the Spanish interests and helped to defend the city against the French...

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Describes the discovery by two high school students of mouse-shaped poems within Lewis Carroll's the classic "mouse's tail poem" of Alice in Wonderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a Ph.D. thesis whose purpose was to trace the appearance of shapes in English poetry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Church found that the pattern poetry had its origins in Greek and Hindi literature. Greek literature contains six examples of pattern poetry: an axe, an egg, a pair of wings, a shepard's pipe, and two alters. Church defines Carmina Quadrata as verses that contain as many lines as each line contains letters. Within these boxlike poems are acrostics, telestichs, and many pictures and designs. The pictures are formed by either capitalizing the letters which outline the figure or by writing them in inks of various colors. Quincunx are poems arranged in oblique lines that can be read from either the upper or lower levels to make sense with either choice (p.51). Pattern poems reached the Anglo-Saxon literature in the 8th century. Alcuin of York wrote two Carmina Quadrata addressed to the cross. Hrabamus Maurus was one of Alcuin's followers. In 1573, pattern poetry...