A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... chief reason for knowing poetry is the intellectual delight it gives to a discriminating reader . The high thought , the lofty courage , the beautiful imagery of the poet , transmitted to us in words the most fitting for communication ...
... chief reason for knowing poetry is the intellectual delight it gives to a discriminating reader . The high thought , the lofty courage , the beautiful imagery of the poet , transmitted to us in words the most fitting for communication ...
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... chief preoccupation with nature or humanity ? If the former , is it with landscapes , seascapes , such larger segments as mountains , prairies , valleys , or with such things as birds and bees and flowers ? If his chief interest is ...
... chief preoccupation with nature or humanity ? If the former , is it with landscapes , seascapes , such larger segments as mountains , prairies , valleys , or with such things as birds and bees and flowers ? If his chief interest is ...
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... chief characters achieve happiness , no matter how perilous the circumstances they have had to face , or how improbable such result would be in the light of actual experience . Farce is a form of drama in which is depicted improbable ...
... chief characters achieve happiness , no matter how perilous the circumstances they have had to face , or how improbable such result would be in the light of actual experience . Farce is a form of drama in which is depicted improbable ...
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