Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 77
... heart , all evil shed away , A pulse in the eternal mind , no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given ; Her sights and sounds ; dreams happy as her day ; And laughter , learnt of friends ; and gentleness , In hearts at ...
... heart , all evil shed away , A pulse in the eternal mind , no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given ; Her sights and sounds ; dreams happy as her day ; And laughter , learnt of friends ; and gentleness , In hearts at ...
Page 85
... heart again . Let us , then , be up and doing , With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and to wait . ( 1839 ) NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT'S NARROW ROOM William Wordsworth SEEING THE POEM ON THE ...
... heart again . Let us , then , be up and doing , With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and to wait . ( 1839 ) NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT'S NARROW ROOM William Wordsworth SEEING THE POEM ON THE ...
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... heart , and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes . Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once , My dear , dear Sister ! and this prayer I make , Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart ...
... heart , and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes . Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once , My dear , dear Sister ! and this prayer I make , Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart ...
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