A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 58
... origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy before it was in Provence ; still others think it was an Arabic form and entered Italy through ...
... origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy before it was in Provence ; still others think it was an Arabic form and entered Italy through ...
Page 59
... Origin , Structure , and Place in Poetry , 1874 ; Hall Caine , Sonnets of Three Centuries , 1882 ; W. Sharp , Sonnets of This Century , 1886 . In strict usage the Italian sonnet requires a rhetorical pause at the end of the octave , the ...
... Origin , Structure , and Place in Poetry , 1874 ; Hall Caine , Sonnets of Three Centuries , 1882 ; W. Sharp , Sonnets of This Century , 1886 . In strict usage the Italian sonnet requires a rhetorical pause at the end of the octave , the ...
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... origins of poetry . A good short work for beginners is The Winged Horse , by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill , 1927 . ON PROSODY George Saintsbury's History of English Prosody , 3 vols . , 1906- 1910 , is the fullest treatment of the ...
... origins of poetry . A good short work for beginners is The Winged Horse , by J. Auslander and F. E. Hill , 1927 . ON PROSODY George Saintsbury's History of English Prosody , 3 vols . , 1906- 1910 , is the fullest treatment of the ...
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