Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... language - conversing with our friends , listening to lectures or broadcasts , reading books and papers , taking notes and writing letters or reports . We carry on our business with words ... LANGUAGE Let us begin by 42 Language and Art.
... language - conversing with our friends , listening to lectures or broadcasts , reading books and papers , taking notes and writing letters or reports . We carry on our business with words ... LANGUAGE Let us begin by 42 Language and Art.
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... language is serving these two functions . But not so when language is serving its art function . The amaz- ing capacity of words to suggest two or more equally suitable senses in a given verse , to operate with two or more senses at the ...
... language is serving these two functions . But not so when language is serving its art function . The amaz- ing capacity of words to suggest two or more equally suitable senses in a given verse , to operate with two or more senses at the ...
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... LANGUAGE , words the symbols of thought , 167 ; three functions of language , 43-6 , 162 ; literature as language - art , 53. See reference , meaning , communication , interpre- tation , speech . LIGHT VERSE , that poetry whose mood ...
... LANGUAGE , words the symbols of thought , 167 ; three functions of language , 43-6 , 162 ; literature as language - art , 53. See reference , meaning , communication , interpre- tation , speech . LIGHT VERSE , that poetry whose mood ...
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