A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... century , but when the drama has been for public presentation on a stage , poetry has largely given way to prose in ... centuries . The masque com- bined elaborate stage properties and costuming , and dance and song , with poetic ...
... century , but when the drama has been for public presentation on a stage , poetry has largely given way to prose in ... centuries . The masque com- bined elaborate stage properties and costuming , and dance and song , with poetic ...
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... centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ... century Sir Thomas Wyatt , who had come in con- tact with Italian poetry while on ambassadorial missions for Henry ...
... centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ... century Sir Thomas Wyatt , who had come in con- tact with Italian poetry while on ambassadorial missions for Henry ...
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... 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 introduced a few years earlier by Gian Giorgio ...
... 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 introduced a few years earlier by Gian Giorgio ...
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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