The publication of Fourth Quarter, Judith Wright's latest volume of poetry, is a significant event, occurring as it does just thirty years after her hrst volume The Moving Image. In a way, the poems of Fourth Quarter crystallise many of the themes which have preoccupied the poet during those thirty years. At the same time, the poet has not lost her power to surprise us with her new and often qu...

Conclusions, and Implications The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not poetry (i.e., poems, ballads, and songs) could be used as a source of knowledge on historic dress in a social, political, or economic context, using the dress of Scottish Highlanders from 1603 through 1830 as an example, and to triangulate the findings with other sources that portray dress through the wri...

In order to analyze metrical and semantics aspects of poetry in Spanish with computational techniques, we have developed a large corpus annotated with metrical information. In this paper we will present and discuss the development of this corpus: the formal representation of metrical patterns, the semi-automatic annotation process based on a new automatic scansion system, the main annotation pr...