A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... gives us the impression that for any one idea the form in which it is wrought is that alone which can give us the highest satisfaction . The poet has the same delight in grouping words to give beautiful and striking effects that an ...
... gives us the impression that for any one idea the form in which it is wrought is that alone which can give us the highest satisfaction . The poet has the same delight in grouping words to give beautiful and striking effects that an ...
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... give us new delight in things with which we have so long been familiar that we have lost our relish for them . Another evidence is the way in which the poet combines unlike images and feelings to form new ones , thus ex- tending the ...
... give us new delight in things with which we have so long been familiar that we have lost our relish for them . Another evidence is the way in which the poet combines unlike images and feelings to form new ones , thus ex- tending the ...
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... give us an aesthetic satisfaction which enriches life and gives us a greater capacity for its enjoyment . But not only does poetry " serve for delight " ; it benefits us in a number of practical ways . First , it acts in the manner of a ...
... give us an aesthetic satisfaction which enriches life and gives us a greater capacity for its enjoyment . But not only does poetry " serve for delight " ; it benefits us in a number of practical ways . First , it acts in the manner of a ...
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