A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor , valley , rock , or hill ; Ne'er saw I , never felt , a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty ...
... Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor , valley , rock , or hill ; Ne'er saw I , never felt , a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty ...
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... never intended . Such an aim cannot be attained at once by a stu- dent whose training in reading poetry is meager . To give the gen- eral sense of a poem is possible before one progresses far in the study of poetry , but to get all the ...
... never intended . Such an aim cannot be attained at once by a stu- dent whose training in reading poetry is meager . To give the gen- eral sense of a poem is possible before one progresses far in the study of poetry , but to get all the ...
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... never ! Never - forever ! " -LONGFELLOW , " The Old Clock on the Stairs " A tail - rime stanza is one in which two short lines rime together , serving as " tails " to the different parts of the stanza , as in the fol- lowing : Love is ...
... never ! Never - forever ! " -LONGFELLOW , " The Old Clock on the Stairs " A tail - rime stanza is one in which two short lines rime together , serving as " tails " to the different parts of the stanza , as in the fol- lowing : Love is ...
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