Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... chapter , may be sorted into three groups conventionally called the types of poetry - narrative , lyric , and reflective - though all readers will not quite agree as to what the third of these types is , or how they should be defined ...
... chapter , may be sorted into three groups conventionally called the types of poetry - narrative , lyric , and reflective - though all readers will not quite agree as to what the third of these types is , or how they should be defined ...
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... Chapter 4 , and pp . 105-11 from Chapter 5. ( b ) Check over the poems in Chapters 4-6 , and consider them as regards their poetic form . ( c ) Work out , in the form of an outline , a classification of the thirty - three poems in these ...
... Chapter 4 , and pp . 105-11 from Chapter 5. ( b ) Check over the poems in Chapters 4-6 , and consider them as regards their poetic form . ( c ) Work out , in the form of an outline , a classification of the thirty - three poems in these ...
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... chapter and page headings in the Gospels . ( c ) Consider in some detail Pound's use of the ballad for his narrative , and also his use of folk speech . 8. Charity or Love . The version of I Corinthians , 13 given in the text is an ...
... chapter and page headings in the Gospels . ( c ) Consider in some detail Pound's use of the ballad for his narrative , and also his use of folk speech . 8. Charity or Love . The version of I Corinthians , 13 given in the text is an ...
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