Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 116
... alliteration . Alliteration is the use of the same consonant sounds at the be- ginnings of adjacent words ; it is sometimes called " initial rime . " In very early poetry it occurred quite regularly and was one of the features of the ...
... alliteration . Alliteration is the use of the same consonant sounds at the be- ginnings of adjacent words ; it is sometimes called " initial rime . " In very early poetry it occurred quite regularly and was one of the features of the ...
Page 117
... alliteration , at once stand out in this poem : " despised and dying , " " mud from a muddy , " " leech - like , " " blind in blood , " " starved and stabbed , " among others . But this alliteration may be looked upon as a more obvious ...
... alliteration , at once stand out in this poem : " despised and dying , " " mud from a muddy , " " leech - like , " " blind in blood , " " starved and stabbed , " among others . But this alliteration may be looked upon as a more obvious ...
Page 707
... ALLITERATION , sometimes called ini- tial rime , recurrence of a conso- nant sound at the beginning of adjacent words , 116 ff . ALLITERATIVE VERSE , the Old Eng- lish type of versification , based upon the four - stress line with sys ...
... ALLITERATION , sometimes called ini- tial rime , recurrence of a conso- nant sound at the beginning of adjacent words , 116 ff . ALLITERATIVE VERSE , the Old Eng- lish type of versification , based upon the four - stress line with sys ...
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