A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... hand , seems able long after the event to recall his experience and reproduce an emotion with the same acute consciousness as when they were new . He has a wider and more varied experience than most men- the result , first , of his ...
... hand , seems able long after the event to recall his experience and reproduce an emotion with the same acute consciousness as when they were new . He has a wider and more varied experience than most men- the result , first , of his ...
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... hands of Shakespeare : When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights , And beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights , Then , in the blazon of sweet beauty's best , Of ...
... hands of Shakespeare : When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights , And beauty making beautiful old rime , In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights , Then , in the blazon of sweet beauty's best , Of ...
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... hand a text of Pindar's poems , Cowley came under the spell of the Greek poet and began to write odes in what he thought was Pindar's manner ; but he misconceived the form of Pindar's odes , and instead of using the formal metrical ...
... hand a text of Pindar's poems , Cowley came under the spell of the Greek poet and began to write odes in what he thought was Pindar's manner ; but he misconceived the form of Pindar's odes , and instead of using the formal metrical ...
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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