A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... experienced of action and emotion in the world around him or in his own mind . Wordsworth , for instance , says that ... experience than most men- the result , first , of his great sensitivity ; secondly , of his ability to observe man ...
... experienced of action and emotion in the world around him or in his own mind . Wordsworth , for instance , says that ... experience than most men- the result , first , of his great sensitivity ; secondly , of his ability to observe man ...
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... experience . By means of a powerful imagina- tion , which acts upon the jumbled mass of information in his mind , he is able to create new experiences , to combine incongruous ele- ments in such way as to produce harmonious effects ...
... experience . By means of a powerful imagina- tion , which acts upon the jumbled mass of information in his mind , he is able to create new experiences , to combine incongruous ele- ments in such way as to produce harmonious effects ...
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... experience , and consequently bringing new experiences to us . And still another evidence is the way in which from actual creations he develops ideal ones . Although the poet is under the same obligation as the scientist to adhere to ...
... experience , and consequently bringing new experiences to us . And still another evidence is the way in which from actual creations he develops ideal ones . Although the poet is under the same obligation as the scientist to adhere to ...
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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