A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... popularity in the Middle Ages . It is remi- niscent of the epic in some ways , but deals not so much with a national ... popular ballad is a folk product . In old days when there were no newspapers , and when the common folk had no books ...
... popularity in the Middle Ages . It is remi- niscent of the epic in some ways , but deals not so much with a national ... popular ballad is a folk product . In old days when there were no newspapers , and when the common folk had no books ...
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... popular ballad in theme and treatment but , instead of being a communal product , it is the work of one poet who is consciously imitating the popular ballad . The range is from such close imitations as Chatterton's " Dethe of Syr ...
... popular ballad in theme and treatment but , instead of being a communal product , it is the work of one poet who is consciously imitating the popular ballad . The range is from such close imitations as Chatterton's " Dethe of Syr ...
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... Popular Ballad , 1907 ; G. L. Kittredge and Helen C. Sargent , English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( a fine selection , made from the five- volume collection by F. J. Child ) , 1904 ; Louise Pound , Poetic Origins and the Ballad , 1921 ...
... Popular Ballad , 1907 ; G. L. Kittredge and Helen C. Sargent , English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( a fine selection , made from the five- volume collection by F. J. Child ) , 1904 ; Louise Pound , Poetic Origins and the Ballad , 1921 ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER 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 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