A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... describe insanity he does so in " The Haunted Palace " by representing a man's head as a palace once perfectly ordered but now filled with evil things . The most elaborate example of this in English poetry is Spenser's Faerie Queene ...
... describe insanity he does so in " The Haunted Palace " by representing a man's head as a palace once perfectly ordered but now filled with evil things . The most elaborate example of this in English poetry is Spenser's Faerie Queene ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER IV ON STUDYING THE CONTENT OF POETRY IN describing a man , we usually give a separate ... describe a man's appearance apart from his innate qualities , we find it more convenient to study sepa- rately the ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. CHAPTER IV ON STUDYING THE CONTENT OF POETRY IN describing a man , we usually give a separate ... describe a man's appearance apart from his innate qualities , we find it more convenient to study sepa- rately the ...
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... describe a line of poetry one should ( 1 ) name the basic foot , ( 2 ) tell how many feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or ...
... describe a line of poetry one should ( 1 ) name the basic foot , ( 2 ) tell how many feet are in the line , ( 3 ) note any substitution for a basic foot , ( 4 ) report any excess or defect of unstressed syl- lables at the beginning or ...
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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