A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... expressing his ideas and emotions in adequate images . This is one of his rarest attri- butes , for the expression of emotionalized experience in fitting lan- guage is the culmination of man's ability to communicate , and in this the ...
... expressing his ideas and emotions in adequate images . This is one of his rarest attri- butes , for the expression of emotionalized experience in fitting lan- guage is the culmination of man's ability to communicate , and in this the ...
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... expression of a worthy idea in measured language . I is the product when a brooding imagination finds in man and natur deep matter for consideration and transmits its findings to others fo their delight and edification . These and many ...
... expression of a worthy idea in measured language . I is the product when a brooding imagination finds in man and natur deep matter for consideration and transmits its findings to others fo their delight and edification . These and many ...
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... expression , is always a mark of the supreme artist . An instance of this is in Lear , where Shakespeare has the old king , at last convinced of Cordelia's death , instead of bursting into a wild display of grief , look around dazedly ...
... expression , is always a mark of the supreme artist . An instance of this is in Lear , where Shakespeare has the old king , at last convinced of Cordelia's death , instead of bursting into a wild display of grief , look around dazedly ...
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