A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Wife of Usher's Well . " Full beautiful , a faery's child ; Her hair was long , her foot was light , And her eyes were wild . -KEATS , " La Belle Dame sans Merci " ( abba ) Our little systems have their day ; [ 51 ] THE STANZA.
... Wife of Usher's Well . " Full beautiful , a faery's child ; Her hair was long , her foot was light , And her eyes were wild . -KEATS , " La Belle Dame sans Merci " ( abba ) Our little systems have their day ; [ 51 ] THE STANZA.
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... eyes in endless night . Behold , where Dryden's less presumptuous car , Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . III , 3 Hark , his hands the lyre ...
... eyes in endless night . Behold , where Dryden's less presumptuous car , Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . III , 3 Hark , his hands the lyre ...
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... eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson ? whom , unarmed , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand ; Who tore the lion as the lion tears the kid ; Ran on embattled ...
... eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson ? whom , unarmed , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand ; Who tore the lion as the lion tears the kid ; Ran on embattled ...
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