A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... universal truth in thought or feeling , transmuted by the imagination into fitting images , and expressed in beautiful , and usually patterned , language . It is the perfect expression of a worthy idea in measured language . It is the ...
... universal truth in thought or feeling , transmuted by the imagination into fitting images , and expressed in beautiful , and usually patterned , language . It is the perfect expression of a worthy idea in measured language . It is the ...
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... universal is best approached by way of the particular , poetry largely deals with individual experiences . These experiences , how- ever , must be related to emotions which everyone feels , or the poem loses its validity . Hence such a ...
... universal is best approached by way of the particular , poetry largely deals with individual experiences . These experiences , how- ever , must be related to emotions which everyone feels , or the poem loses its validity . Hence such a ...
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... universal a matter as man's condition- ings , his duty to carry on the traditions of the race and fulfill promises made for him from the beginning of time . In similar way all good poetry deals with what is of universal import . Another ...
... universal a matter as man's condition- ings , his duty to carry on the traditions of the race and fulfill promises made for him from the beginning of time . In similar way all good poetry deals with what is of universal import . Another ...
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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