Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 194
... emotion may be said to have taken place . But if the reader's feelings are of quite a different sort from the poet's , then certainly the poem has stimulated emotion , but it has not ( in our sense ) communicated it . For the only way ...
... emotion may be said to have taken place . But if the reader's feelings are of quite a different sort from the poet's , then certainly the poem has stimulated emotion , but it has not ( in our sense ) communicated it . For the only way ...
Page 204
... emotion has not been com- municated , and the reading experience has been unsuccessful in this regard . 4. CAUSES OF THE READER'S EMOTION We come now to the important question : What causes the stir of feeling within the reader ? But to ...
... emotion has not been com- municated , and the reading experience has been unsuccessful in this regard . 4. CAUSES OF THE READER'S EMOTION We come now to the important question : What causes the stir of feeling within the reader ? But to ...
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... EMOTION OF THE POET , the feeling as one of the four phases of meaning , 168 ff . , 194 , 196 ; the over - all emo- tion of a poem , 196 ; the poet's emotion as distinct from his char- acters ' , 201 , 203 ; an exercise , 244 f ...
... EMOTION OF THE POET , the feeling as one of the four phases of meaning , 168 ff . , 194 , 196 ; the over - all emo- tion of a poem , 196 ; the poet's emotion as distinct from his char- acters ' , 201 , 203 ; an exercise , 244 f ...
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