This poem is based upon Geirge Herbert's (1593-1633) poem, "The Quiddity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Michael Drayton (1563-1631). The first two and the last two lines of Poly-Olbion, Or a Chorographical Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forest and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, with Intermixtureof the Most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon the First Set of Madrigals of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), from The Lay of the Last Minstrel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Delight in Disorder." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632), from Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Nature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Anonymous, 16th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Poem with rightful line: William Blake(1757-1827), Poem with fraudulent line: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), "She Walks in Beauty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day," early English song Spenser, "Epithalamion" Wyatt, "The Lover Complaynath the Unkindness of his Love" (1503 - 1549). Refrains from the three different poems ring out in repetition, print-interconnected, given in notation rather than full quote. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Ben Jonson, Alexander Pope, William Wordworth, William Cowper, Robert Browning, Michael Drayton, Giles Fletcher, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Sackville, Thomas Randolph, Henry Vaughan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), "When thy beauty appears." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Sir Edward Dyer (d.1607), "The lowest trees have tops." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Keats, "Sleep and Poetry,"11. 47-58 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon J. Milton, R. Browning, G. Gordon, S. T. Coleridge, C. Marlowe, A. Pope, H. Wadsworth Longfellow, J. Keats, R. Herrick, M. Arnold, D. G. Rossetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "The White Doe of Rylstone," Canto Four, lines 68-169. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Barnabe Barnes (1569?-1609), from Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Weiss defines concrete poetry as poetry "in which the word and sometimes the letter, and even unidentifiable but vaguely pseudo-alphabetical shapes become the basic element- syntax being mostly or entirely abandoned." In this volume, Weiss has rearranged, splintered, interfaced, shaped, cancelled conventional poetry composed by classic poets thereby "creating poems intended as self-conscious utterances whose purpose is to express the relation of traditional verse to its own medium of print." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Weiss defines concrete poetry as poetry "in which the word and sometimes the letter, and even unidentifiable but vaguely pseudo-alphabetical shapes become the basic element- syntax being mostly or entirely abandoned." In this volume, Weiss has rearranged, splintered, interfaced, shaped, cancelled conventional poetry composed by classic poets thereby "creating poems intended as self-conscious utterances whose purpose is to express the relation of traditional verse to its own medium of print." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.