A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... important ; but having an intelligent idea of what are some of the marks of a good poem will help . 3 One important mark is the presence of an imaginative element . An evidence of this is the ability of the poet to interpret old matter ...
... important ; but having an intelligent idea of what are some of the marks of a good poem will help . 3 One important mark is the presence of an imaginative element . An evidence of this is the ability of the poet to interpret old matter ...
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... important element in accent , but in English it is of much less importance than intensity.1 The second cause of accent is increase in quantity , by which is meant the time employed in speaking the syllable . In Greek and Latin verse ...
... important element in accent , but in English it is of much less importance than intensity.1 The second cause of accent is increase in quantity , by which is meant the time employed in speaking the syllable . In Greek and Latin verse ...
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... important critical work which has influenced Western literature is Aristotle's Poetics , a good edition being Aris- totle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art , by S. H. Butcher , 1911 . The first important critical works on English poetry ...
... important critical work which has influenced Western literature is Aristotle's Poetics , a good edition being Aris- totle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art , by S. H. Butcher , 1911 . The first important critical works on English poetry ...
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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