A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... matter , without becoming involved in the disputes of mature critics over questionable passages . Oc- casionally , however , it may not be readily apparent in which cate- gory something belongs ; and when this is true , one must seek ...
... matter , without becoming involved in the disputes of mature critics over questionable passages . Oc- casionally , however , it may not be readily apparent in which cate- gory something belongs ; and when this is true , one must seek ...
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... matter , person , or condition , is satirical poetry . Here the author carica- tures the foibles or failings or pretensions of mankind or holds these up to ridicule . Examples are Dryden's Absalom and Achit- ophel , Pope's Dunciad ...
... matter , person , or condition , is satirical poetry . Here the author carica- tures the foibles or failings or pretensions of mankind or holds these up to ridicule . Examples are Dryden's Absalom and Achit- ophel , Pope's Dunciad ...
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... matter . For this there were two reasons . The first lay in the use made of the formal ode . Since it was presented by a chorus upon great occasions , it could contain nothing mean and vulgar ; and since it was usually in praise of the ...
... matter . For this there were two reasons . The first lay in the use made of the formal ode . Since it was presented by a chorus upon great occasions , it could contain nothing mean and vulgar ; and since it was usually in praise of the ...
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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