A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... beginning of the seventeenth century , but when the drama has been for public presentation on a stage , poetry has largely given way to prose in recent times . Two special instances of the use of poetry in dramatic compo- sitions should ...
... beginning of the seventeenth century , but when the drama has been for public presentation on a stage , poetry has largely given way to prose in recent times . Two special instances of the use of poetry in dramatic compo- sitions should ...
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... beginning a study of prosody is not so much , however , to determine what are the elements of accent as to know where accent occurs , for it is the latter which leads to correct scansion and hence ultimately to intelligent reading ...
... beginning a study of prosody is not so much , however , to determine what are the elements of accent as to know where accent occurs , for it is the latter which leads to correct scansion and hence ultimately to intelligent reading ...
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... beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the cesura when it occurs , and ( 7 ) tell whether the line is " end - stopped " or " run - on . " BASIC FEET The foot , which is the unit ...
... beginning or end of a line , ( 5 ) tell the type of final stress , ( 6 ) note the position of the cesura when it occurs , and ( 7 ) tell whether the line is " end - stopped " or " run - on . " BASIC FEET The foot , which is the unit ...
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