A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... blank verse , and Emerson and Whittier used it occasionally ; among twentieth - century poets , E. A. Robinson and Robert Frost have used the form with high skill . A few examples will suffice to illustrate the use of blank verse from ...
... blank verse , and Emerson and Whittier used it occasionally ; among twentieth - century poets , E. A. Robinson and Robert Frost have used the form with high skill . A few examples will suffice to illustrate the use of blank verse from ...
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... verse does not depend on metre or , usually , rime , it employs all the other elements of tone quality . Good free ... blank verse and the irregular ode - for the former lacked rime and the latter had an irregular metrical scheme , and a ...
... verse does not depend on metre or , usually , rime , it employs all the other elements of tone quality . Good free ... blank verse and the irregular ode - for the former lacked rime and the latter had an irregular metrical scheme , and a ...
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... Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of poetry . A good ... Blank Verse , 1895 ; Robert Bridges , Milton's Prosody , revised edition , 1921 ( containing much valuable comment on ...
... Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of poetry . A good ... Blank Verse , 1895 ; Robert Bridges , Milton's Prosody , revised edition , 1921 ( containing much valuable comment on ...
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