A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... result of conscious study or long reading of good poetry , or both . Of these , reading is the more important ; but having an intelligent idea of what are some of the marks of a good poem will help . One important mark is the presence ...
... result of conscious study or long reading of good poetry , or both . Of these , reading is the more important ; but having an intelligent idea of what are some of the marks of a good poem will help . One important mark is the presence ...
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... results his advantage of being able to project his thought into realms beyond the jurisdiction of the ordinary seeker ... result of his worship of beauty , his desire for the permanency of loveliness , and his sorrow [ 7 ] THE NATURE AND ...
... results his advantage of being able to project his thought into realms beyond the jurisdiction of the ordinary seeker ... result of his worship of beauty , his desire for the permanency of loveliness , and his sorrow [ 7 ] THE NATURE AND ...
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... , or how improbable such result would be in the light of actual experience . Farce is a form of drama in which is depicted improbable happenings of a highly ludicrous sort , in which absurdities abound , and in [ 38 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
... , or how improbable such result would be in the light of actual experience . Farce is a form of drama in which is depicted improbable happenings of a highly ludicrous sort , in which absurdities abound , and in [ 38 ] A POETRY PRIMER.
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