A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ...
... Italian and the English . The Italian form , an imita- tion of the Italian sonnet of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries , consists of an octave and a sestet , riming in the octave abbaabba and in the sestet cdecde or cdcdcd or ...
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... Italian , based his sonnets on Italian models , that the Italian form was followed closely in English . Few sonnets were written in Eng- lish between 1658 , the date of Milton's last one , and the middle of the eighteenth century , when ...
... Italian , based his sonnets on Italian models , that the Italian form was followed closely in English . Few sonnets were written in Eng- lish between 1658 , the date of Milton's last one , and the middle of the eighteenth century , when ...
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... Italian form as modified by Wyatt : The pillar perish'd is whereto I leant , The strongest stay of mine unquiet mind ; The like of it no man again can find , From east to west still seeking though he went , To mine unhap . For hap away ...
... Italian form as modified by Wyatt : The pillar perish'd is whereto I leant , The strongest stay of mine unquiet mind ; The like of it no man again can find , From east to west still seeking though he went , To mine unhap . For hap away ...
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