A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the sceptred race ! Ah what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . -LANDOR , " Rose Aylmer " Another ...
... thou shouldst be living at this hour . -WORDSWORTH , " Sonnet to Milton " Ah what avails the sceptred race ! Ah what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . -LANDOR , " Rose Aylmer " Another ...
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... thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore , Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . When I ...
... thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore , Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . When I ...
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... thou , If thou shouldst never see my face again , ยท Pray for my soul . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of . Wherefore , let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day . But now farewell . I am going a ...
... thou , If thou shouldst never see my face again , ยท Pray for my soul . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of . Wherefore , let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day . But now farewell . I am going a ...
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