Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here , the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls still speak ...
... live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here , the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls still speak ...
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... live the life grew , golden and not gray , And I'm the weak - eyed bat no sun should tempt Out of the grange whose ... lives , Said one day Agnolo , his very self , To Rafael . . . I have known it all these years ( When the young man was ...
... live the life grew , golden and not gray , And I'm the weak - eyed bat no sun should tempt Out of the grange whose ... lives , Said one day Agnolo , his very self , To Rafael . . . I have known it all these years ( When the young man was ...
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... live ; And as I near approach'd the verge of life , Some kind relation ( for I'd have no wife ) Should take upon him all my worldly care While I did for a better state prepare . Then I'd not be with any trouble vexed , Nor have the ...
... live ; And as I near approach'd the verge of life , Some kind relation ( for I'd have no wife ) Should take upon him all my worldly care While I did for a better state prepare . Then I'd not be with any trouble vexed , Nor have the ...
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