A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... present terminology , and even the present system of teaching prosody . But in view of the swiftness with which proponents and opponents of any small change rush to battle , it is unlikely that such a convention will be held this year ...
... present terminology , and even the present system of teaching prosody . But in view of the swiftness with which proponents and opponents of any small change rush to battle , it is unlikely that such a convention will be held this year ...
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... present in prose , it is there properly subordinated to reason , while in poetry it is one of the dominant elements . And in this respect also poetry differs from mere verse , for when a piece of writing depicts an emotion which gives ...
... present in prose , it is there properly subordinated to reason , while in poetry it is one of the dominant elements . And in this respect also poetry differs from mere verse , for when a piece of writing depicts an emotion which gives ...
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... present a definite situation and are in the form of monologues or are spoken in the first person . To such poems Browning gave the name " dramatic lyrics . " Exam- ples of this type are Browning's " Andrea del Sarto , " " Fra Lippo ...
... present a definite situation and are in the form of monologues or are spoken in the first person . To such poems Browning gave the name " dramatic lyrics . " Exam- ples of this type are Browning's " Andrea del Sarto , " " Fra Lippo ...
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