A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... dealing with old themes , its suggestiveness , its feeling for beauty , and its appeal to the imagination and the emotions . It may be some time before he can appreciate such poems as Paradise Lost and The Prelude ; but a failure to ...
... dealing with old themes , its suggestiveness , its feeling for beauty , and its appeal to the imagination and the emotions . It may be some time before he can appreciate such poems as Paradise Lost and The Prelude ; but a failure to ...
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... dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a whimsical way to give mock significance to some trifle . Examples are Samuel Butler's Hudibras and Joel Barlow's Hasty ...
... dealing with a theme of trifling significance . Its purpose is usually ridicule , although it may be used in a whimsical way to give mock significance to some trifle . Examples are Samuel Butler's Hudibras and Joel Barlow's Hasty ...
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... dealing progressively with one dignified theme . " These definitions , so comprehensive as to be of little aid to a student in attempting to distinguish the ode , are the result of an effort to reconcile under one head poems essentially ...
... dealing progressively with one dignified theme . " These definitions , so comprehensive as to be of little aid to a student in attempting to distinguish the ode , are the result of an effort to reconcile under one head poems essentially ...
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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