Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... English — and read it without regard to the visual experience of its typographical form . Read it aloud and slowly , alert of mind and open of heart . THE SOLDIER Rupert Brooke If I should die , think only this of me : That there's some ...
... English — and read it without regard to the visual experience of its typographical form . Read it aloud and slowly , alert of mind and open of heart . THE SOLDIER Rupert Brooke If I should die , think only this of me : That there's some ...
Page 177
... English , which a special language consisting of about 1000 words , including the special list used in writing about verse . It provides a highly controlled medium for this sort of exercise . Basic English was invented by C. K. Ogden ...
... English , which a special language consisting of about 1000 words , including the special list used in writing about verse . It provides a highly controlled medium for this sort of exercise . Basic English was invented by C. K. Ogden ...
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... English Literature and the bibliographies in The Cambridge History of American Literature record the publication of the suc- cessive editions of works by English and American poets - book - length poems and collections of poems , but ...
... English Literature and the bibliographies in The Cambridge History of American Literature record the publication of the suc- cessive editions of works by English and American poets - book - length poems and collections of poems , but ...
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