A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER I THE POET It is not the office of this book to account for the poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to understand the poet's nature to ... CHAPTER THE POET.
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER I THE POET It is not the office of this book to account for the poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to understand the poet's nature to ... CHAPTER THE POET.
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... chapter has been to aid the student to recognize poetry and to help him arrive at the point where he will appreciate it . And now remains to give a few of the reasons why poetry is worth the best effort to understand it . Perhaps the ...
... chapter has been to aid the student to recognize poetry and to help him arrive at the point where he will appreciate it . And now remains to give a few of the reasons why poetry is worth the best effort to understand it . Perhaps the ...
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... chapter has dealt only with the general problem of accent and time intervals ; the following chapter considers these in a more particular way . CHAPTER VII THE FOOT AND THE LINE POETRY is organized [ 43 ] RHYTHM AND METRE.
... chapter has dealt only with the general problem of accent and time intervals ; the following chapter considers these in a more particular way . CHAPTER VII THE FOOT AND THE LINE POETRY is organized [ 43 ] RHYTHM AND METRE.
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama elements emotion employed English poetry English verse envoy epode examples experience expression feeling feet free verse give Greek hath Heaven heroic epic iamb iambic pentameter ideas imagination important instance Italian form Keats language light lines LONGFELLOW love thee Lowell's lyric poetry matter Matthew Arnold metre metrical scheme Milton mind narrative poetry night o'er Paradise Lost pause person Pindar poem poet poetic popular ballad prose prosody qualities quatrain rhetorical rhythm rime-scheme riming words Robert Bridges Rose sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing song sonnet soul sounds Spenser's stanza stanzaic forms story stress strophe structure student sweet syllables rime TENNYSON tercet themes things thou thought tion trochaic trochee understanding unstressed syllables usually vowels W. B. Yeats Whitman's WORDSWORTH writing written