Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... hand , or seemed to leap → He must have given the hand . However it was , Neither refused the meeting . But the hand ! The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh , As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal , but half as ...
... hand , or seemed to leap → He must have given the hand . However it was , Neither refused the meeting . But the hand ! The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh , As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal , but half as ...
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... hand firmly up under your jaw , just forward of the points of the jaw , and place your other fingers of this left hand lightly along the side of your Adam's apple . Put your right forefinger up under your nose , your middle finger under ...
... hand firmly up under your jaw , just forward of the points of the jaw , and place your other fingers of this left hand lightly along the side of your Adam's apple . Put your right forefinger up under your nose , your middle finger under ...
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... hand , In the field where the dais - ies are . THE DAISIES In the scented bud of the morning O , When the windy ... hand in hand , In the field where the daisies are . ( 1926 , music 1936 ) BEGIN THE BEGUINE 3 Cole Porter [ The music for ...
... hand , In the field where the dais - ies are . THE DAISIES In the scented bud of the morning O , When the windy ... hand in hand , In the field where the daisies are . ( 1926 , music 1936 ) BEGIN THE BEGUINE 3 Cole Porter [ The music for ...
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