A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... poetry - words , and even the let ters which form words , being chosen to give concord and melody- while the writer of prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; i ...
... poetry - words , and even the let ters which form words , being chosen to give concord and melody- while the writer of prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; i ...
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... POET AND POETRY IN GENERAL The earliest important critical work which has influenced Western literature is Aristotle's Poetics , a good edition being Aris- totle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art , by S. H. Butcher , 1911 . The first ...
... POET AND POETRY IN GENERAL The earliest important critical work which has influenced Western literature is Aristotle's Poetics , a good edition being Aris- totle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art , by S. H. Butcher , 1911 . The first ...
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... poetry is W. J. Courthope's History of English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins of ...
... poetry is W. J. Courthope's History of English Poetry , 6 vols . , 1895- 1910 ; an excellent short treatise is R. M. Alden's English Verse , 1903. F. B. Gummere's Beginnings of Poetry , 1901 , is a scholarly study of the origins 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