A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Shakespeare speaks of " jocund day " standing " tip - toe on the misty mountain tops " ; and Emily Dickinson thinks of twilight as " a dominie in gray . " Further in- stances of the use of this method are the following descriptions by ...
... Shakespeare speaks of " jocund day " standing " tip - toe on the misty mountain tops " ; and Emily Dickinson thinks of twilight as " a dominie in gray . " Further in- stances of the use of this method are the following descriptions by ...
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... Shakespeare actually uses it in the dialogue parts of some of his dramas . Certainly a sonnet might be a nature or ... Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear No More the Heat o ' th ' Sun , " Ben Jonson's ...
... Shakespeare actually uses it in the dialogue parts of some of his dramas . Certainly a sonnet might be a nature or ... Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear No More the Heat o ' th ' Sun , " Ben Jonson's ...
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... Shakespeare- followed the form invented by Surrey ; and it was not until well along in the seventeenth century ... Shakespeare's unnamed sequence . More recent ones are Mrs. Browning's Son- nets from the Portuguese , D. G. Rossetti's ...
... Shakespeare- followed the form invented by Surrey ; and it was not until well along in the seventeenth century ... Shakespeare's unnamed sequence . More recent ones are Mrs. Browning's Son- nets from the Portuguese , D. G. Rossetti's ...
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