Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 50
... writer will make an effort to pin down his critical terms with working definitions , and strive to avoid those constructions in his writing that may leave his sentences open to several interpretations . For ambiguity is a fault when ...
... writer will make an effort to pin down his critical terms with working definitions , and strive to avoid those constructions in his writing that may leave his sentences open to several interpretations . For ambiguity is a fault when ...
Page 233
... writing which , like the money given the servants in the Bible story , will be taken from me if it is not used- even though it is my great desire to be writing in God's name and for His profit , for fear He may come back and put me to ...
... writing which , like the money given the servants in the Bible story , will be taken from me if it is not used- even though it is my great desire to be writing in God's name and for His profit , for fear He may come back and put me to ...
Page 606
... writing " downy flake " for " fall of flake " the gain is great not only for accuracy of feeling and fact , but also for the music of the lines . The simple alliteration in " fall of flake " is canceled in favor of the word , one word ...
... writing " downy flake " for " fall of flake " the gain is great not only for accuracy of feeling and fact , but also for the music of the lines . The simple alliteration in " fall of flake " is canceled in favor of the word , one word ...
Contents
ANATOMY OF THE POEMEXPERIENCE | 65 |
65 | 91 |
Visual and Other FreeImagery | 137 |
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A. E. Housman aloud Amy Lowell anapestic attitudes auditory ballad Beauty breath called chapter clouds critical dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotional response English experience eye-movements eyes free imagery free verse Frost full meaning give hand hath heard heart heaven I. A. Richards iambic interpretation John Keats King language light listening look Lord Lord Randal Louis Untermeyer lyric metrical pattern metrical variation mind mind's-ear mood never night over-all meaning persons phrase poem poem-experience poem-reading-experience poet poetic form poetic rhythm poetry printed verses prose reader reading recorded reread rime Robert Robert Frost rose Sea-Fever sense pattern silent sing song sonnet sort soul speech stanza stanzaic form stir stressed SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sweet syllables T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion turn Vincent Millay visual voice wind words