A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... century , when Milton , an able student of 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 ...
... century , when Milton , an able student of 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 ...
Page 78
... century ; Thomson and Young in the eighteenth cen- tury ; Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , and Keats in the Romantic period ; Tennyson , Browning , Matthew Arnold , and Swinburne in the Victorian period ; and Thomas Hardy , W. B. ...
... century ; Thomson and Young in the eighteenth cen- tury ; Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , and Keats in the Romantic period ; Tennyson , Browning , Matthew Arnold , and Swinburne in the Victorian period ; and Thomas Hardy , W. B. ...
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... century , William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) had written considerable free verse , and Shelley's earliest work , Queen Mab ( 1812 ) , was largely in this form . Other nineteenth - century English poets employing the form were Robert Southey ...
... century , William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) had written considerable free verse , and Shelley's earliest work , Queen Mab ( 1812 ) , was largely in this form . Other nineteenth - century English poets employing the form were Robert Southey ...
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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