Rhymed Verse and Nature Fables

• Tumble Rhymes, spooneristically rhymed couplets by my friends and myself.
  
  
• Rhymed Translations: the Restrung Bow rhymed verse translation from the earliest recorded sources in Europe (c. 1100) up to Rilke. Some of these have already been published or will be submitted for publication at the Monadnock Review, which posts a fair amount of rhymed verse translation.
  
  
• Rilke Rhymed, mostly from the New Poems series 1907 and 1908.
  
  
• Some of my translations from Rilke and some Medieval German poets, as well as from Italian Renaissance poets — Dante, Donzella, Guido, Michelangelo and others — are published in the Review.
  
  
• Guilhem de Peitieu, rhymed translations from the earliest known troubadour, Guilhem (1071-1127) VII Count of Poitiers, IX Duke of Aquitaine, and Eleanor of Aquitaine's grandfather, whose songs may seem in obstreperous bad taste from today's perspective but are still interesting.
  
  
• Selected Cecco—formal offenses committed by Cecco Angiolieri, 13th Century master of the scurrilous sonnet.
  
  
• The Grab Bag of Verses, random snatches of memorable and quotable verse, recollected by myself and others.
  
  
• The 2002 edition of Serious Units Fables, dreams and brief imaginary excursions involving the natural units of measurement. An earlier (1999) version called Planckian Fables is published here and in the Monadnock Review.
  
  
• A new collection called Serious Units Fables 2, featuring George Washington, Taoist sages and the five most intuitively accessible fundamental physical constants.

Tumble Rhymes, Rhymed Translations: the Restrung Bow, Selected Cecco, Rilke Rhymed, The Grab Bag of Verses, and Serious Units Fables are titles © 1999,2001,2002 Leonard Cottrell

As a convenience I have also posted the French text of P-J Toulet's Contrerimes, which were published in 1921, the year after the poet's death.

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