Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 205
... particular utterance . This sug- gestive power of particular words has a cumulative effect in de- veloping the emotional response of the reader to a poem . But other phases of the " music " of a poem will also play a part in stirring ...
... particular utterance . This sug- gestive power of particular words has a cumulative effect in de- veloping the emotional response of the reader to a poem . But other phases of the " music " of a poem will also play a part in stirring ...
Page 305
... particular drama or novel or poem at some particular moment in his life ? The sailor who during the forlorn anchor watch reconciled himself to his fate by turning to his pocket Rubáiyát — the girl in a restrictive environ- ment to whom ...
... particular drama or novel or poem at some particular moment in his life ? The sailor who during the forlorn anchor watch reconciled himself to his fate by turning to his pocket Rubáiyát — the girl in a restrictive environ- ment to whom ...
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... particular manner of using lan- guage , the expression of his particular personality traits ( to use a now discredited word ) . He will be predisposed or conditioned to treat certain themes in certain ways ; he will prefer certain forms ...
... particular manner of using lan- guage , the expression of his particular personality traits ( to use a now discredited word ) . He will be predisposed or conditioned to treat certain themes in certain ways ; he will prefer certain forms ...
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