A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... songs are love , nature , and patriotism ; and of sacred songs , religion , death , and immor- tality . Good examples of the former are John Lyly's " Apelles ' Song , " Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear ...
... songs are love , nature , and patriotism ; and of sacred songs , religion , death , and immor- tality . Good examples of the former are John Lyly's " Apelles ' Song , " Shakespeare's " Who Is Sylvia , " " O Mistress Mine , " and " Fear ...
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... Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time ...
... Song " ( ababb ) We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . -SHELLEY , " To a Skylark " ( abccb ) There was a time ...
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... song and lute . " But now love has another plan : With powder , rouge , and seaside tan The maid , no longer lady fair , Pursues the man ( no matter where He seeks to hide ) in her sedan , With song and lute . " -EDWIN CASADY , " The ...
... song and lute . " But now love has another plan : With powder , rouge , and seaside tan The maid , no longer lady fair , Pursues the man ( no matter where He seeks to hide ) in her sedan , With song and lute . " -EDWIN CASADY , " The ...
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