Poet's Muse, a part of the award-winning McGill Reference Series, is a groundbreaking new reference designed for poets and other creative writers who are struggling with writer's block, or who are just looking for inspiration. Poet's Muse is a serious, yet fun and easy-to-use reference based on cutting-edge scientific research. It is perfect for writers of screenplays, scripts, stories, fiction, songs and especially poetry and lyrics, when the writer is looking for innovation and creative inspiration. Unlike many other techniques for overcoming writer's block and finding your muse, this reference only requires readers to skip around and read word pairs that catch their eye. The wiring of the brain will intuitively interact with these powerful semantic associations making inspiration and imagination just a fingertip away.
Far from random words, the associative word pairs in this volume have been tediously assembled. Inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory and other natural language processing research from top university laboratories, this reference serves as a catalyst for stimulating the brain into following paths that expose the connections and associations manifest in the linguistic fabric of our social collective consciousness. Research for this powerful tool started with a corpus of spontaneous conversations and orthographic transcriptions totaling over three million words, which were recorded from over 500 speakers comprised of both sexes from every major dialect of American English. From this raw data, a total of over 30,000 subjects of declarative sentences were isolated, collected and analyzed for word frequency and proximity patterns within the context of semantic relevance.
McGill is a classically trained and internationally acclaimed poet, who was taught personally by contemporary and past masters such as the protégé of W.H. Auden, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and by the eminent naturalist and intellectual, Dr. Allen W. Eckert. He is a computer scientist, and former engineer from the world-renowned software company, Borland International, based in "Silicon Valley" California. McGill is best known for his advocacy of the poetic arts, and is the editor and author of the award-winning McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme, which is used by tens of thousands of writers from over 100 countries, and stands as the world's most extensive rhyming reference ever created in the history of the English language.
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"Strong, wonderful words and thoughts!" ~ Michael Douglas, Oscar and Academy Award winning Actor (1994)
"...yes, splendid...absolutely breath taking." ~ George Plimpton, American Academy of Arts and Letters Inductee (1997)
"...some beautiful writing…a nice lilting poetical quality…very good." ~ Dr. Allan W. Eckert, Pulitzer Nominated Emmy Award Winner (1998)
"...delightful poems." ~ Dr. Saul Bellow, 1976 Nobel Laureate in Literature & Pulitzer Prize Recipient (1994)
"In a magic way his style of words and thoughts touch on the beauties, wonders and mysteries that are a part of us all." ~ Gaye Deamer, NYT Bestselling Author & Biographer of singer Clay Aiken (1994)
"His poems flow with surprising grace and insight...completely original yet familiar to the insightful reader, as a piano concerto by Mozart seems to be written upon our souls long before our ears hear the music." ~ JR Padgett, M.A. (Litt), Writer & Critic, Birmingham-Southern College (1989)
