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At its most basic, 'newspaper poetry' refers to poetry that appears in a newspaper. In 19th-century usage, the term acquired aesthetic overtones. Lorang, discussing newspaper poetry's reception in the United States, observes that '[p]erhaps the most commonly espoused view was that newspaper poetry was light verse unworthy of the space it required and unworthy of significant consideration'. [1]
The oldest newspaper still in print in the world. Still published as a daily (paper and online) newspaper. 1665 [21] Oxford Gazette: English Oxford: England From issue 24 in 1666, the paper was printed in London and renamed London Gazette; [22] this is still published. 1666 Den Danske Mercurius: Danish Copenhagen: Denmark-Norway: 1673 ...
The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) 400 pages; Updated edition of Merrill, The elite press; great newspapers of the world (1968), which profiled 40 newspapers; Pettegree, Andrew. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself (Yale University Press, 2014), covers Europe 1400 to 1800; Smith, Anthony.
The Gazzetta di Mantova, the world's oldest newspaper still existing and published with the same name, was established in June 1664. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In 1668 the first Italian scientific journal was published, the Giornale de' Letterati , following the Journal des sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions in style.
The poem is not a conventional part of the Classical genre of Theocritan elegy, because it does not mourn an individual. The use of "elegy" is related to the poem relying on the concept of lacrimae rerum, or disquiet regarding the human condition. The poem lacks many standard features of the elegy: an invocation, mourners, flowers, and shepherds.
From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (2004) excerpt and text search; Conboy, Martin. Journalism in Britain: A Historical Introduction (2010) George Boyce, James Curran. Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1978) Handover, P. M. A History of the London Gazette, 1665-1965 ...
While most newspapers are aimed at a broad spectrum of readers, usually geographically defined, some focus on groups of readers defined more by their interests than their location: for example, there are daily and weekly business newspapers (e.g., The Wall Street Journal and India Today) and sports newspapers. More specialist still are some ...
A piece of blackout poetry, created by blocking out words from a piece of newsprint. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage [1]) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.