Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... experiences and to a present unpleasant experience , at one and the same time . So it is that , although nearly everyone would agree that " Of course ' Sea - Fever ' is a poem , " some persons will mean one thing and some will mean ...
... experiences and to a present unpleasant experience , at one and the same time . So it is that , although nearly everyone would agree that " Of course ' Sea - Fever ' is a poem , " some persons will mean one thing and some will mean ...
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... experience is a complex pattern of the reader's thoughts , feelings , and other internal goings - on , his amaz- ingly individual subjective response stimulated by the poem on the page . Indeed the poem - experience " Sea - Fever " will ...
... experience is a complex pattern of the reader's thoughts , feelings , and other internal goings - on , his amaz- ingly individual subjective response stimulated by the poem on the page . Indeed the poem - experience " Sea - Fever " will ...
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... experience . I cannot tell you what you thought , felt , and " saw . " Nor shall I presume to tell you what you ought to have experienced . It is true that some readers are more skillful than others in the interpretation of poetry ...
... experience . I cannot tell you what you thought , felt , and " saw . " Nor shall I presume to tell you what you ought to have experienced . It is true that some readers are more skillful than others in the interpretation of poetry ...
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