A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Alma Blount , C. F. Harrold , and H. W. Reninger ; and for permission to use some of their verse to illustrate a number of forms , to a number of my former students . 914719 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER PREFACE I. THE POET II PN1031.
... Alma Blount , C. F. Harrold , and H. W. Reninger ; and for permission to use some of their verse to illustrate a number of forms , to a number of my former students . 914719 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER PREFACE I. THE POET II PN1031.
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... illustrate its effective use : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . -Essay on Criticism ' Tis education forms the common mind , Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclin'd . Boastful ...
... illustrate its effective use : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . -Essay on Criticism ' Tis education forms the common mind , Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclin'd . Boastful ...
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... illustrate internal as well as end rime : Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded , nearly napping , suddenly there came a tapping , 2 In ...
... illustrate internal as well as end rime : Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered weak and weary , Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded , nearly napping , suddenly there came a tapping , 2 In ...
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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