A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... epic , the mock epic , the metrical romance , the popular ballad , the literary ballad , and the metrical tale . The term epic is from the Greek оs , a story , and лixós , per- taining to a story , and designates the highest and most ...
... epic , the mock epic , the metrical romance , the popular ballad , the literary ballad , and the metrical tale . The term epic is from the Greek оs , a story , and лixós , per- taining to a story , and designates the highest and most ...
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... epic . Outstanding examples of the literary epic are Virgil's Aeneid , Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , and Milton's Paradise Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic ...
... epic . Outstanding examples of the literary epic are Virgil's Aeneid , Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , and Milton's Paradise Lost . The mock epic is a poem which employs the grandiloquent language and the elaborate machinery of the heroic ...
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... epic in origin but differs from it in almost all other re- spects . The epic deals with high , heroic themes , the ballad with those common to ordinary people ; the epic treats of racial or na- tional activities , the ballad of personal ...
... epic in origin but differs from it in almost all other re- spects . The epic deals with high , heroic themes , the ballad with those common to ordinary people ; the epic treats of racial or na- tional activities , the ballad of personal ...
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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