A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to understand the poet's nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of ...
... poetic gift or to explain the processes of the poetic mind ; for it is not neces- sary to understand the poet's nature to appreciate his product , or to know how poetry is created to like it . Yet to have some ele- mentary knowledge of ...
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... poetic style is concreteness . Although chiefly interested in general and universal themes , the poet knows that the best way of stimulating interest in these is through the particular . He overcomes our lethargy and inatten- tiveness ...
... poetic style is concreteness . Although chiefly interested in general and universal themes , the poet knows that the best way of stimulating interest in these is through the particular . He overcomes our lethargy and inatten- tiveness ...
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... poetic gift and was followed by others who wrote provocatively on the subject , among them Coleridge in Biographia Literaria , 1817 ; William Hazlitt in Lectures on the English Poets , particularly in the essay " On Poetry in General ...
... poetic gift and was followed by others who wrote provocatively on the subject , among them Coleridge in Biographia Literaria , 1817 ; William Hazlitt in Lectures on the English Poets , particularly in the essay " On Poetry in General ...
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