A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... tion to the four basic types described here , and some writers on English verse follow them in recognizing several additional feet . Of these , only one , the amphibrachic foot , or the amphibrach , deserves much notice . It is a foot ...
... tion to the four basic types described here , and some writers on English verse follow them in recognizing several additional feet . Of these , only one , the amphibrachic foot , or the amphibrach , deserves much notice . It is a foot ...
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... tion of them all . A few with special names , however , should be learned . In other instances the student will have to give detailed descriptions of individual stanzas - an easy task once he knows how to explain metre and rime - scheme ...
... tion of them all . A few with special names , however , should be learned . In other instances the student will have to give detailed descriptions of individual stanzas - an easy task once he knows how to explain metre and rime - scheme ...
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... tion and Fancy , 1844 ; Emerson in " Poetry and Imagination ” in Letters and Social Aims , 1875 ; and Matthew Arnold in Essays in Criticism , Second Series , 1888. T. Ribot's Essay on the Creative Imagination , translated by A. H. N. ...
... tion and Fancy , 1844 ; Emerson in " Poetry and Imagination ” in Letters and Social Aims , 1875 ; and Matthew Arnold in Essays in Criticism , Second Series , 1888. T. Ribot's Essay on the Creative Imagination , translated by A. H. N. ...
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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