A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... beauty , " how a crow shakes down the dust of snow from a hemlock tree , how the finger of a dead baby seems to ... beauty and the transitoriness of life , seizes upon the image of the daffodil , and uses its beauty and brief existence ...
... beauty , " how a crow shakes down the dust of snow from a hemlock tree , how the finger of a dead baby seems to ... beauty and the transitoriness of life , seizes upon the image of the daffodil , and uses its beauty and brief existence ...
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... beauty . Thus in Spenser's Faerie Queene , many scenes if isolated would be revolting , but when considered in their context as the depiction of conflicts between virtues and vices - holiness and hypocrisy , temperance and gluttony ...
... beauty . Thus in Spenser's Faerie Queene , many scenes if isolated would be revolting , but when considered in their context as the depiction of conflicts between virtues and vices - holiness and hypocrisy , temperance and gluttony ...
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... beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights , Then , in the blazon of sweet beauty's best , Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow , I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty ...
... beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights , Then , in the blazon of sweet beauty's best , Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow , I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty ...
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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