A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... deep matter for consideration and transmits its findings to others fo their delight and edification . These and many other things - more prosaic or more imagina- tive - may be said of poetry by way of describing or explaining it yet ...
... deep matter for consideration and transmits its findings to others fo their delight and edification . These and many other things - more prosaic or more imagina- tive - may be said of poetry by way of describing or explaining it yet ...
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... deep purpose in every poem of this sort , for not uncommonly a poet may see a place , be pleased or sur- prised or repelled by its beauty or ugliness or some other circum- stance about it , and write a poem merely to express his feeling ...
... deep purpose in every poem of this sort , for not uncommonly a poet may see a place , be pleased or sur- prised or repelled by its beauty or ugliness or some other circum- stance about it , and write a poem merely to express his feeling ...
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... deep , Fields , that cool Ilissus laves , Or where Mæander's amber waves In lingering lab'rinths creep , How do your tuneful echoes languish , Mute , but to the voice of anguish ! Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breath'd ...
... deep , Fields , that cool Ilissus laves , Or where Mæander's amber waves In lingering lab'rinths creep , How do your tuneful echoes languish , Mute , but to the voice of anguish ! Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breath'd ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
Copyright | |
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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