A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... book to account for the poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to ... books and articles , a number by poets themselves , deal with these sub- jects , and a list of some of the more ...
... book to account for the poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to ... books and articles , a number by poets themselves , deal with these sub- jects , and a list of some of the more ...
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... book for a certain class of metrical composition , the term line will be employed instead of the technical term . 2 In this book an accented syllable is marked thus ( ' ) and an unaccented one thus ( x ) , because the marks more ...
... book for a certain class of metrical composition , the term line will be employed instead of the technical term . 2 In this book an accented syllable is marked thus ( ' ) and an unaccented one thus ( x ) , because the marks more ...
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... Book of the Epic ( a foreword and a summary of the great epics ) , 1913 ; F. B. Gummere , The Popular Ballad , 1907 ... books on the sonnet , see the note , page 59 ) ; Edmund Gosse , English Odes , 1881 ( a collection , with an ...
... Book of the Epic ( a foreword and a summary of the great epics ) , 1913 ; F. B. Gummere , The Popular Ballad , 1907 ... books on the sonnet , see the note , page 59 ) ; Edmund Gosse , English Odes , 1881 ( a collection , with an ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama edited 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 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 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