Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... dead Past bury its dead . Act - act in the living Present— Heart within , and God o'erhead . Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime , ( 1842 ) And , departing , leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time- .A ...
... dead Past bury its dead . Act - act in the living Present— Heart within , and God o'erhead . Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime , ( 1842 ) And , departing , leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time- .A ...
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... dead , And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's . ( 1896 ) SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 1 ... Dead ? Threshold : doorstep of his home ? edge of the grave ? doorsill to the gate of Hades ? Town : home town again ? or ...
... dead , And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's . ( 1896 ) SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 1 ... Dead ? Threshold : doorstep of his home ? edge of the grave ? doorsill to the gate of Hades ? Town : home town again ? or ...
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... dead : because the dead athletes who greet him outlived their prime ? because all the dead are without strength ? Garland : the crown of laurel . Briefer than a girl's : the laurel normally withers sooner than the rose which a girl ...
... dead : because the dead athletes who greet him outlived their prime ? because all the dead are without strength ? Garland : the crown of laurel . Briefer than a girl's : the laurel normally withers sooner than the rose which a girl ...
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