A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... sonnet , the ode , reflective poetry , didactic poetry , and satirical poetry are treated as if co- ordinate with these groups . And here we meet with difficulties , for although virtually all sonnets are lyrics , the sonnet has to do ...
... sonnet , the ode , reflective poetry , didactic poetry , and satirical poetry are treated as if co- ordinate with these groups . And here we meet with difficulties , for although virtually all sonnets are lyrics , the sonnet has to do ...
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... sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy ...
... sonnet - sequence ) consists of three quatrains and a couplet , riming abab cdcd efef gg.1 1 The origin of the sonnet has not been traced . Some believe it to have originated with the Provençal poets ; others insist that it was in Italy ...
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... sonnets . In 1789 William Lisle Bowles ( 1762-1850 ) published Fourteen Sonnets , which influenced Coleridge and his contempo- raries and helped bring about a revival of interest in the sonnet . Nearly all the Romantic poets wrote sonnets ...
... sonnets . In 1789 William Lisle Bowles ( 1762-1850 ) published Fourteen Sonnets , which influenced Coleridge and his contempo- raries and helped bring about a revival of interest in the sonnet . Nearly all the Romantic poets wrote sonnets ...
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