verse-writing

Creative writing is not the same as verse-writing, and was conceived in fact as a break with the older humanistic tradition that verse-writing represented.

Getting creative writing wrong 2009

He hailed from southern Minnesota, and what between a penchant for journalism, verse-writing, and some dramatic work, was somewhat undecided as to his future.

The Titan 2004

About this time he was smitten with the love of Lord Byron's poetry, which he devoured with avidity, and his own love of verse-writing revived.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Of old the Muses were three, each of whom must reject something from the poem, but when verse-writing became easier and more traditional, their number was raised to nine, that they might be the harder to please.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Years after a similar discussion arose; and those who heard it are not likely to forget the mock-philosophic-gastronomic blank verse composed by Mr. Sambourne on the spur of the moment just to illustrate how very easy clever verse-writing really is.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

But with the outbreak of the world war one met unquestionably sincere confession from more than one poet that he found verse-writing a pale and anemic thing.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

In addition, he has a genius for plot-making and verse-writing, be it original or parody, which in its own line is unsurpassed in modern literature.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

One particularly pleasing thing about this verse-writing was that there was no delay, as there was with my prose.

Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel 1928

Nearly all my authorities had been very severe on the practice of verse-writing.

Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel 1928

A word as to the title of this book: There lived at Ch'êng-tu, the capital of Szechwan, early in the Ninth Century, a courtesan named Hsieh T'ao, who was famous for her wit and verse-writing.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921