A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Lost and The Prelude ; but a failure to appreciate these is no disgrace at the beginning . If he is gradually acquiring more liking for poems which people with nice discrimination agree to be good , he may be satisfied . When , for ...
... Lost and The Prelude ; but a failure to appreciate these is no disgrace at the beginning . If he is gradually acquiring more liking for poems which people with nice discrimination agree to be good , he may be satisfied . When , for ...
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... Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a ...
... Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic epic while dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a ...
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... Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , | and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict Bellefontaine , | the wealthiest farmer of Grand - Pré , Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him , directing his household ...
... Lost , I Six - stress verse : Somewhat apart from the village , | and nearer the Basin of Minas , Benedict Bellefontaine , | the wealthiest farmer of Grand - Pré , Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him , directing his household ...
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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