A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... instance , as Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " at first seems to be much ado about a trifle , but a study of the poem discloses that Pope was doing more than writing about the theft of a lady's curl - that he was in reality making a ...
... instance , as Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " at first seems to be much ado about a trifle , but a study of the poem discloses that Pope was doing more than writing about the theft of a lady's curl - that he was in reality making a ...
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... instance , in Poe's lines " To Helen , " where a woman's beauty and her classic features , the glory of Greece and the grandeur of Rome are brought together in such a way that our susceptibility to beauty is increased , while ...
... instance , in Poe's lines " To Helen , " where a woman's beauty and her classic features , the glory of Greece and the grandeur of Rome are brought together in such a way that our susceptibility to beauty is increased , while ...
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Gerald De Witt Sanders. metrical accent . For instance , in these lines from one of Robert Bridges ' sonnets : The ... instances , for example , as and Should auld acquaintance be forgot , And auld lang syne ? London bridge is falling ...
Gerald De Witt Sanders. metrical accent . For instance , in these lines from one of Robert Bridges ' sonnets : The ... instances , for example , as and Should auld acquaintance be forgot , And auld lang syne ? London bridge is falling ...
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