Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... Beauty , and that it is a mistake of the same sort to look for Beauty as an indisputable quality of certain objective things . First , they will say , no two equally competent observers will identify this presumed quality as possessed ...
... Beauty , and that it is a mistake of the same sort to look for Beauty as an indisputable quality of certain objective things . First , they will say , no two equally competent observers will identify this presumed quality as possessed ...
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... Beauty ” and “ Lord Randal . " There would seem to be no clear basis for comparison ; these pairs of things and the ... Beauty - but with what a differ- ence , for the “ Beauty that must die " and the beauty that “ cannot fade " are ...
... Beauty ” and “ Lord Randal . " There would seem to be no clear basis for comparison ; these pairs of things and the ... Beauty - but with what a differ- ence , for the “ Beauty that must die " and the beauty that “ cannot fade " are ...
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... beauty , beauty , beauty , . . . from vanishing away ? Ó , is there no frowning of these wrinkles , rankèd wrinkles deep , Dówn ? no waving - off of these most mournful messengers , still mes- sengers , sad and stealing messengers of ...
... beauty , beauty , beauty , . . . from vanishing away ? Ó , is there no frowning of these wrinkles , rankèd wrinkles deep , Dówn ? no waving - off of these most mournful messengers , still mes- sengers , sad and stealing messengers of ...
Contents
ORIENTATION TO POETRY i Preconceptions and Pointers | 3 |
In Search of Poetry | 21 |
Language and Art | 42 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aloud Amy Lowell anapestic attitudes auditory ballad Beauty breath called chapter clouds critical dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotional response experience eye-movements eyes free imagery free verse Frost full meaning give hand hath heard heart heaven I. A. Richards iambic interpretation John Keats King language listening look Lord Lord Randal Louis Untermeyer lyric metrical pattern metrical variation mind's-ear mood never night over-all meaning persons phrase poem poem-experience poem-reading-experience poet poetic form poetic rhythm poetry printed verses prose reader reading recorded reread rime Robert Robert Frost rose Sea-Fever sense pattern silent sing song sonnet sort soul sound pattern speech stanza stanzaic form stir stressed SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sweet syllables T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion tone translation turn Vincent Millay visual voice wind words