A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then , is a matter of sound , not of ...
... close rime , but not pose and suppose ( because the consonant sounds preceding the accented vowel o are similar ) , nor rose and host ( because the sounds after the accented vowels differ ) . Rime , then , is a matter of sound , not of ...
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... close of the sixteenth century . Some of the more important Elizabethan sonnet - sequences are Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella , Spenser's Amoretti , Samuel Daniel's Delia , Michael Drayton's Idea , and Shakespeare's unnamed ...
... close of the sixteenth century . Some of the more important Elizabethan sonnet - sequences are Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella , Spenser's Amoretti , Samuel Daniel's Delia , Michael Drayton's Idea , and Shakespeare's unnamed ...
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... close of the eighteenth 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 ...
... close of the eighteenth 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 ...
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