A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... dark night Underneath my window plaineth ? It is one who from thy sight Being , ah , exiled , disdaineth Every other vulgar light . 1 -SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , " Eleventh Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not ...
... dark night Underneath my window plaineth ? It is one who from thy sight Being , ah , exiled , disdaineth Every other vulgar light . 1 -SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , " Eleventh Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not ...
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... dark blue air , In perturbed pain and dismal torment Now stretching out , now swift conglobing . Effluvia vapored above In noxious clouds : these hovered thick Over the disorganized immortal , Till petrific pain scurfed o'er the lakes ...
... dark blue air , In perturbed pain and dismal torment Now stretching out , now swift conglobing . Effluvia vapored above In noxious clouds : these hovered thick Over the disorganized immortal , Till petrific pain scurfed o'er the lakes ...
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... darkness ? Will Ianthe wake again , And give that faithful bosom joy Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch Light , life , and rapture from her smile ? Hark ! ah , the nightingale- The tawny - throated ! -SHELLEY , Queen Mab , I Hark ...
... darkness ? Will Ianthe wake again , And give that faithful bosom joy Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch Light , life , and rapture from her smile ? Hark ! ah , the nightingale- The tawny - throated ! -SHELLEY , Queen Mab , I Hark ...
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