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Swanson tells her story in short-lined poetry so low keyed, most critics seem to have missed it despite lines like “the house in the night/a home full of light.”

2009 Caldecott Medal Honors an Attractive But Derivative Book — ALA Judges Play It Safe by Choosing the Poetry of ‘The House in the Night’ « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Swanson tells her story in short-lined poetry so low keyed, most critics seem to have missed it despite lines like “the house in the night/a home full of light.”

2009 January 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Swanson tells her story in short-lined poetry so low keyed, most critics seem to have missed it despite lines like “the house in the night/a home full of light.”

2009 January « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

If you see the "Ode" as ash, as an urn itself, as a short-lined poem (the "stuff" of the middle removed), as prose, as a poem with one word per line, you have created a set of commentaries on the visual impact of the original and can no longer assume Keats's choices of line-length and stanza as simply the default position, the transparent container of the poem.

Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

It is not in any sense an imitation; but there is an audible reminiscence which is unmistakable in the metre and cadence of the short-lined verses, descriptive of the vision.

Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

Yet man, vain man, would with this short-lined plummet,

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665