A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the sceptred race ! Ah what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . -LANDOR , " Rose Aylmer ...
... Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the sceptred race ! Ah what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . -LANDOR , " Rose Aylmer ...
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... Milton wrote the words for masques ; and since their contribution may be thought of as a special type of dramatic poem , it belongs r.ther to poetry than to drama proper . The most famous example is Milton's Comus . The so - called ...
... Milton wrote the words for masques ; and since their contribution may be thought of as a special type of dramatic poem , it belongs r.ther to poetry than to drama proper . The most famous example is Milton's Comus . The so - called ...
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... Milton . In his great poem , Samson Agonistes , Milton used a mixture of blank verse and a very loose form which has been explained as an imitation of the Greek choral ode , but which today would assuredly be called free verse . Before ...
... Milton . In his great poem , Samson Agonistes , Milton used a mixture of blank verse and a very loose form which has been explained as an imitation of the Greek choral ode , but which today would assuredly be called free verse . Before ...
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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 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 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