A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... students , they can teach themselves ; it makes little effort to consider matters of chief interest to the advanced student and the critic ; and it intro- duces no innovations . It might be well if all the teachers and critics and ...
... students , they can teach themselves ; it makes little effort to consider matters of chief interest to the advanced student and the critic ; and it intro- duces no innovations . It might be well if all the teachers and critics and ...
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... student on the right track and lead to a correct interpre- tation of a poem . Such questions as the following , for instance , are not too elementary to start with , and if the student is inclined to consider them too simple for anyone ...
... student on the right track and lead to a correct interpre- tation of a poem . Such questions as the following , for instance , are not too elementary to start with , and if the student is inclined to consider them too simple for anyone ...
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... student's aim should be that which is supposed to animate a witness in court : to tell the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth — that is , to get all the author meant to convey , but avoid reading into the poem meanings ...
... student's aim should be that which is supposed to animate a witness in court : to tell the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth — that is , to get all the author meant to convey , but avoid reading into the poem meanings ...
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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