A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 58
... English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet ...
... English poetry - the Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet ...
Page 77
... English in the fourth decade of the sixteenth century by Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , who used the form in translat- ing two books of Virgil's Aeneid . He received the idea for blank verse from Italian poetry , where it had been ...
... English in the fourth decade of the sixteenth century by Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , who used the form in translat- ing two books of Virgil's Aeneid . He received the idea for blank verse from Italian poetry , where it had been ...
Page 87
... English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of poetry . A good short work for beginners is ...
... English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of poetry . A good short work for beginners is ...
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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