Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... earth as from a distance , sees the moonlight creep over the earth's rounded edge or " shoulder , " ( c ) that all is shrouded in darkness until the sun rises again ? What is the silver sister - world : ( a ) the planets or one of them ...
... earth as from a distance , sees the moonlight creep over the earth's rounded edge or " shoulder , " ( c ) that all is shrouded in darkness until the sun rises again ? What is the silver sister - world : ( a ) the planets or one of them ...
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... earth is not ; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless , tranced thing , But divine , melodious truth ; Philosophic numbers smooth ; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries . Thus ye live on high , and then On the ...
... earth is not ; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless , tranced thing , But divine , melodious truth ; Philosophic numbers smooth ; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries . Thus ye live on high , and then On the ...
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... earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth ... earth's destruction thou dost all despise , Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies , And send'st him , shivering in ...
... earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth ... earth's destruction thou dost all despise , Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies , And send'st him , shivering in ...
Contents
ORIENTATION TO POETRY i Preconceptions and Pointers | 3 |
In Search of Poetry | 21 |
Language and Art | 42 |
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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