Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... light rays strike the retina . The retina is the inner lining of the back of the eyeball , in which are imbedded optic nerve - ends that are sensitive to light . The pattern of light falling on the retina — the retinal image of the ...
... light rays strike the retina . The retina is the inner lining of the back of the eyeball , in which are imbedded optic nerve - ends that are sensitive to light . The pattern of light falling on the retina — the retinal image of the ...
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... light - emotional sort , and this has been found with recurrent favor from time to time throughout the centuries ... LIGHT VERSE : COMIC AND SATIRIC A third divergence from the serious - emotional mood is that yet smaller body of light ...
... light - emotional sort , and this has been found with recurrent favor from time to time throughout the centuries ... LIGHT VERSE : COMIC AND SATIRIC A third divergence from the serious - emotional mood is that yet smaller body of light ...
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... light verse , there may be seen the same pair of factors , incongruity and superiority , light- ening with risibility the serious - emotional mood with which life is so often faced , The satirical element in literature has been defined ...
... light verse , there may be seen the same pair of factors , incongruity and superiority , light- ening with risibility the serious - emotional mood with which life is so often faced , The satirical element in literature has been defined ...
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