A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... means are whatever the universe contains , and its ends pleasure and exaltation . -LEIGH HUNT , " What Is Poetry " in Imagination and Fancy , 1844 I would define , in brief , the poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty ...
... means are whatever the universe contains , and its ends pleasure and exaltation . -LEIGH HUNT , " What Is Poetry " in Imagination and Fancy , 1844 I would define , in brief , the poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty ...
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... means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients , observing the motions of the heavenly bodies , with the consequent effects of day and night , the flow and ebb of the tides , and the return ...
... means recur- rence in time , and is applicable to any wave - like motion . Hence the ancients , observing the motions of the heavenly bodies , with the consequent effects of day and night , the flow and ebb of the tides , and the return ...
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... means of designating time intervals , pauses are sometimes used . In such instances , for example , as and Should auld acquaintance be forgot , And auld lang syne ? London bridge is falling down , My fair lady , pauses instead of ...
... means of designating time intervals , pauses are sometimes used . In such instances , for example , as and Should auld acquaintance be forgot , And auld lang syne ? London bridge is falling down , My fair lady , pauses instead of ...
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