“Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.” WritingFatherPoetPatternsAdmireDramatic Author:John Dryden
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.” MindEndsUseReadingVoiceSilenceAudiencePoetActressesTricksDramaticToneRomeAgonyHis LoveLecturesAbsentShakingGrimLecturerYaleMonologuesRuth Author:Louis Auchincloss
“Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.” FeelsRiskJourneyPoetDramaticVentureReluctant Book:Deep Play Source: Deep Play
“I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.” ThinkingFictionPoetDramaticTheatricalFiction Writers Author:Francine Prose
“I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.” KnowsWould BeAblePoetAuthorityCapableStrangerDramaticCourageousSpeakersBorrowed Author:Tracy K. Smith
“Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.” WritingStillsFormPoetNarrativeDramaticSouthern Author:Robert Morgan