A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... writers of poetry would meet and settle once for all the ques- tions of poetic and prosodic terminology , probably ... writing it . Experience shows that many students need to know not only something about rhythm and metre and stanzas ...
... writers of poetry would meet and settle once for all the ques- tions of poetic and prosodic terminology , probably ... writing it . Experience shows that many students need to know not only something about rhythm and metre and stanzas ...
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... writer of prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; i ... writing in rime does not come in a day , however , but is the result of conscious study or long reading of good ...
... writer of prose avoids a too mellifluous flow of words But not only in structure is poetry distinguishable from prose ; i ... writing in rime does not come in a day , however , but is the result of conscious study or long reading of good ...
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... writer who lacks honest conviction produces poetry of high merit . This is why those who grind out verse daily to meet some particular demand so rarely produce anything of value . Writing a poem a day may be good practice in skill for a ...
... writer who lacks honest conviction produces poetry of high merit . This is why those who grind out verse daily to meet some particular demand so rarely produce anything of value . Writing a poem a day may be good practice in skill for 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