Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... heard or imagined , is one of the most remarkable aspects of the " music " of poetry . So , while the reader is enjoying the principal poetic rhythm , that tug of war between metrical and sense patterns , and while he is conscious of ...
... heard or imagined , is one of the most remarkable aspects of the " music " of poetry . So , while the reader is enjoying the principal poetic rhythm , that tug of war between metrical and sense patterns , and while he is conscious of ...
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... HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER Walt Whitman When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; When the proofs , the figures , were ranged in columns before me ; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams , to add , divide , and measure them ; When ...
... HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER Walt Whitman When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; When the proofs , the figures , were ranged in columns before me ; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams , to add , divide , and measure them ; When ...
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... heard a cricket's cymbals play , A scarecrow lightly flapped his rags , And a pan that hung by his shoulder rang ... heard the whippoorwill's soft fret . I heard a cricket caroling , I heard a cricket caroling , I heard a cricket say ...
... heard a cricket's cymbals play , A scarecrow lightly flapped his rags , And a pan that hung by his shoulder rang ... heard the whippoorwill's soft fret . I heard a cricket caroling , I heard a cricket caroling , I heard a cricket say ...
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