A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... dealing with ideas , he cannot risk explaining them with the same deliberation as the writer may whose appeal is chiefly to the reason , but must transmit them quickly and graphically so as to assure them the most favorable reception ...
... dealing with ideas , he cannot risk explaining them with the same deliberation as the writer may whose appeal is chiefly to the reason , but must transmit them quickly and graphically so as to assure them the most favorable reception ...
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... dealing with abstract matters . Thus when Poe would describe insanity he does so in " The Haunted Palace " by representing a man's head as a palace once perfectly ordered but now filled with evil things . The most elaborate example of ...
... dealing with abstract matters . Thus when Poe would describe insanity he does so in " The Haunted Palace " by representing a man's head as a palace once perfectly ordered but now filled with evil things . The most elaborate example of ...
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... dealing with its history and structure , while rules were laid down for its correct formation . These resulted in more care being devoted to the form , with the consequent elimination of much of the looseness of structure which marked ...
... dealing with its history and structure , while rules were laid down for its correct formation . These resulted in more care being devoted to the form , with the consequent elimination of much of the looseness of structure which marked ...
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