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Spasmodic School of Poetry. A humorous term applied in the 1850s to a school of poetry devoted to violent wordy dra- matic poems characterized by obscurity and wild imagery. The English poet Sydney Dobell’s long, unfinished Balder (1854) is considered perhaps the most extreme example of the Spas- modic School. Two of its lines went: “Ah! Ah! Ah! / Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!” When he wrote his poem The Roman (1850), Dobell inverted his first name to form the pseudonym Sydney Yendys. |